TEMPORAL SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS FOR HISTORIANS - A Case Study

John Haggerty, Sheryllynne Haggerty

2011

Abstract

Social network analysis has received much attention across disciplines. Recently, historians have begun to complicate their understanding of networks and are increasingly using visualisation to elucidate tangible and intangible information in their data sets. Current approaches make use of static social network analysis and whilst they provide a number of tools to explore a social network, they are unable to provide temporal analysis. This paper presents Matrixify, a practical visual application for the exploratory temporal analysis of social networks for historians and others not familiar with visual representations of data. This approach aims to deconstruct the complexity of social networks to provide a temporal analysis to answer a key problem in historical studies, that of ‘analysis of change over time’. In this way, historians are able to identify real relationships in their data sets; actors in contact at a particular point in time and shown over time. The case study presented in this paper demonstrates the applicability of the approach in inter-disciplinary studies.

References

  1. Abello, J., Korn, J., 2002. MGV: A System for Visualizing Massive Multigraphs. In IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 8(1) pp. 21-38.
  2. Bezerianos, A., Dragicevic, P., Fekete, J.-D., Juhee Bae, Watson, B., 2010. In IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 16(6) pp. 1073- 1081.
  3. Burt, R. D., 2004. Structural Holes and Good Ideas. In American Journal of Sociology, 10(2) pp. 349-399.
  4. Carlos, A. M., Maguire, K., Neal, L., 2008. 'A Knavish People…78: London Jewry and the Stock Market During the South Sea Bubble. In Business History 50(6) pp. 728-748.
  5. Churchill, E. F., Halverson, C. A., 2005. Social Networks and Social Networking. In IEEE Internet Computing Sep/Oct 2005 pp. 14-19.
  6. Company, 1750-1810. Minute Book of the African Merchants Trading from Liverpool, unpublished, Liverpool Record Office 352/MD1.
  7. Erikson, E., Bearman, P., 2006. Malfeasance and the Foundations for Global Trade: The Structure of English Trade in the East Indies, 1601-1833. In American Journal of Sociology 112(1) pp. 195-230.
  8. Falkowski, T., Bartelheimer, J., Spiliopoulou, M., 2006. Mining and Visualizing the Evolution of Subgroups in Social Networks. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Intelligence, Hong Kong, pp. 52- 58.
  9. Freeman, L. C., 1978/79. Centrality in Social Networks. In Social Networks 1 pp. 215-239.
  10. Granovetter, M. S., 1973. The Strength of Weak Ties. In American Journal of Sociology 78(6) pp. 1360-1380.
  11. Haggerty, J., Haggerty, S., 2010. Visual Analytics of an Eighteenth-Century Business Network. In Enterprise and Society 11(1) pp. 1-25.
  12. Haggerty, J., Haggerty, S., forthcoming. Life Cycle of a Metropolitan Business Network: Liverpool 1750- 1810. To appear in Explorations in Economic History.
  13. Hamilton, D. J., 2005. Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic World, 1750-1820, Manchester University Press, Manchester.
  14. Hancock, D., 2005. The Trouble with Networks: Managing the Scots' Madeira Trade. In Business History Review 79 pp. 467-491.
  15. Henry, N., Fekete, J.-D., McGuffin, M. J., 2007. NodeTrix: A Hybrid Visualization of Social Networks. In IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 13(6) pp. 1302-1309.
  16. Hu, B., Gong, J., 2010. Modeling Individual-Based Social Network with Spatial-Temporal Information. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Management and Service Science, Wuhan, China, pp. 1-4.
  17. Kalamaras, D. B., SocNetV. http://socnetv.sourceforge. net, accessed October 2010.
  18. Lawler, E. J., Yoon, J., 1996. Commitment in Exchange Relations: Test of a Theory of Relational Cohesion. In American Sociological Review 61 pp. 89-108.
  19. Lee, B., Parr, C. S., Plaisant, C., Bederson, B. B., Veksler, V. D., Gray, W. D., Kotfila, C., 2006. TreePlus: Interactive Exploration of Networks with Enhanced Tree Layouts. In IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 12(6) pp. 1414-1426.
  20. Lipp, C., 2005, Kinship Networks, Local Government, and Elections in a Town in Southwest Germany, 1800- 1850. In Journal of Family History, 30, pp. 347-365.
  21. Mathias, P., 2000. Risk, Credit and Kinship in Early Modern Enterprise. In McCusker, J.J. and Morgan, K. (eds.) The Early Modern Atlantic Economy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
  22. Perer, A., Schneiderman, B., 2009. Integrating Statistics and Visualization for Exploratory Power: From LongTerm Case Studies to Design Guidelines. In IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications May/Jun pp. 39- 51.
  23. Renzulli, L. A., Aldrich, H., Moody, J., 2000. Family Matters: Gender, Networks and Entrepreneurial Outcomes. In Social Forces 79(2) pp. 523-546.
  24. Snasel, V., Horak, Z., Kocibova, J., Abraham, A., 2009. Reducing Social Network Dimensions Using Matrix Factorization Methods. In Proceedings of Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining, Athens, Greece, pp. 348-351.
  25. Telea, A., Voinea, L., 2009. Case Study: Visual Analytics in Software Product Assessments. In Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis, Edmonton, Canada, pp. 65-72.
  26. Vlado, A., Pajek. http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/networks/pajek, accessed October 2010.
  27. Walvin, J., 1997. The Quakers: Money and Morals, John Murray, London.
  28. Wasserman, S., Faust, K., 1994. Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Download


Paper Citation


in Harvard Style

Haggerty J. and Haggerty S. (2011). TEMPORAL SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS FOR HISTORIANS - A Case Study . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Imaging Theory and Applications and International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2011) ISBN 978-989-8425-46-1, pages 207-217. DOI: 10.5220/0003315802070217


in Bibtex Style

@conference{ivapp11,
author={John Haggerty and Sheryllynne Haggerty},
title={TEMPORAL SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS FOR HISTORIANS - A Case Study},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Imaging Theory and Applications and International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={207-217},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003315802070217},
isbn={978-989-8425-46-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Imaging Theory and Applications and International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2011)
TI - TEMPORAL SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS FOR HISTORIANS - A Case Study
SN - 978-989-8425-46-1
AU - Haggerty J.
AU - Haggerty S.
PY - 2011
SP - 207
EP - 217
DO - 10.5220/0003315802070217