New Book on Social Network Analysis
Professor Song Yang in the Department of Sociology and Criminology published a new book, Social Network Analysis in Action, by Springer.
This edited volume includes six cutting-edge chapters on various aspects of social network analysis, starting with basics of social network theories, research designs, data analytics, moving to advanced topics in social network analysis, data mining from online discourse platform and applications of social network analytics.
A few other scholars, from current U of A faculty members to former graduate students, contributed to this volume. Two chapters in this edited book are supported by the National Science Foundation "Data Analytics that are Robust and Trusted (DART)" under Award No. OIA-1946391.
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Song Yang, professor
SOCI
479-575-3748,
yangwang@uark.edu
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