Adjacency matrices / edge lists / incidence lists — memory vs speed tradeoffs.
Graph databases — Neo4j, JanusGraph for large, queryable networks.
File formats — GraphML, GEXF, CSV edge lists, Pajek.
8) Scalability & performance
Streaming graph construction — incremental ingestion from live data.
Distributed storage & processing — Spark GraphX, Pregel-like systems, GPU graph
processing.
Memory-efficient representations — compressed sparse row, graph partitioning.
9) Analysis & feature extraction
Node centrality measures — degree, betweenness, closeness, eigenvector, PageRank.
Community detection — modularity, Louvain, Infomap, spectral methods.
Motifs & subgraph patterns — triads, feed-forward loops.
Graph embeddings — node2vec, DeepWalk, GNNs for downstream ML tasks.
10) Temporal & longitudinal analysis
Edge birth/death modeling — tie formation and decay.
Cascades & diffusion — information propagation, cascade trees, exposure models.
Change-point detection — structural shifts over time.
11) Inference & predictive tasks
Link prediction — supervised and heuristic methods.
Influence estimation — influence maximization, contagion models.
Role discovery / structural equivalence — automated role assignment.
12) Evaluation & validation
Ground truth & benchmarking — building labeled sets, synthetic ground truth.
Evaluation metrics — precision/recall for links, NMI for communities, AUC for link
prediction.
Robustness checks — sensitivity to sampling, thresholds, noisy data.
13) Privacy, ethics & legal issues
Anonymization & de-identification — k-anonymity, differential privacy for graphs.
Consent & platform policies — legal/ToS constraints on data harvesting.
Re-identification risks — structural uniqueness and deanonymization attacks.
14) Visualization & reporting
Graph layout algorithms — force-directed, hierarchical, geographic.
Scalable visualization — sampling, aggregation, WebGL/Gephi/Neo4j Bloom.
Storytelling with networks — dashboards, narrative snapshots, animated evolution.
15) Tools & libraries
Python — NetworkX, graph-tool, SNAP (via PySNAP), StellarGraph, PyTorch
Geometric.
R — igraph, statnet, tidygraph/ggraph.
Stand-alone — Gephi, Pajek, Cytoscape, Neo4j.
APIs & ETL — Tweepy (X), PRAW (Reddit), Scrapy, Selenium for scraping.
16) Specialized topics / advanced methods
Graph neural networks (GNNs) — node classification, link prediction using deep
models.
Heterogeneous information networks — multiple node/edge types and schema.
Causal inference on networks — peer effects, interference, randomized network
experiments.
Synthetic network generation — generative models (stochastic block models, R-MAT).
17) Domain-specific applications & case studies
Epidemiology — contact networks for disease spread.
Organizational networks — knowledge flow, collaboration mapping.
Political networks — influence, echo chambers, misinformation spread.
Marketing & recommendation — viral campaigns, influencer targeting.
If you want, I can:
- expand any single subtopic into a short how-to (data sources + sample code + pitfalls),
- produce a reading list and seminal papers for a subset you pick, or
- sketch a minimal end-to-end pipeline (scrape → clean → build → analyze) with sample
tools and commands.
Which of those would help next?
okay, uhm. can you compared that topics to this txt file
ChatGPT said: Sure! Please upload the .txt file here, and I’ll compare its contents against the
subtopics list I just outlined.
I can:
- map which subtopics from “extracting social networks” are covered in your file,
- highlight gaps (topics not mentioned), and
- show overlaps (where your file already touches the same themes).
Go ahead and drop the file 👇
ChatGPT said:
Got it — I compared your uploaded subtopics.txt with the broader subtopics map I wrote for
“extracting social networks.” Here’s the alignment:
✅ Covered in your file
1. Foundations of social networks
↔ Matches my Sources & Data Modeling (definitions, theory, centrality, communities).
2. Computational Model of Social Meaning (CMSM)
↔ Overlaps with my Relation Extraction & NLP (semantics, pragmatics, context) and
Attributed / signed networks (sentiment, roles).
Integrating CMSM with social network extraction
