Research Symposium

BIO

Kelli Cardenas is a sophomore from Plant City, Florida and is majoring in Management Information Systems. Her research interests are in technology and personal finance.

Data Management in Respect to Social Network Analysis

Abstract

Although Social Network Analysis has been around for quite some time, there is not much research regarding the issues that should be taken into consideration when it is applied to data. This project documents how to clean and manage data, prepare data, and visualize social network graphs. The aim for this project is to document the steps required to prepare, clean, manage, and analyze social network data. This study will use data already collected from previous projects to practice managing the data before using it for visualization. When working with social network data the data is clustered, therefore making it violate the typical interdependence often seen in analysis. This, among other difficulties, makes it important for Social Network Analysts to understand the importance of being able to manage the data properly. This study will be using the program R to manage the data and visualize the data. It is expected that after managing and visualizing the data it can be used for analysis to better understand how social networks can be used for health behavior interventions.

Keywords: Data Management, Social Network Analysis