Articles about Social Network Analysis & ONA

I get asked almost daily about information on social graphs, network science, social networks, organizational network analysis… and every derivation of the above words. 

Here are some helpful links to help dive deeper into the subjects than a simple blog post or Google search to help you improve you work, networking and influence. 

Social networks push runners to run further and faster than their friends

 Waze Maps: If everything is a network, nothing is a network

 When Hierarchies and Networks Collide 

This 60-second animation shows how divided Congress has become over the last 60 years 

Mapping Twitter Topic Networks: From Polarized Crowds to Community Clusters   

Study of Generalized communities in networks  

25 hour YouTube Class:Structural Analysis and Visualization of Networks  

YouTube: Redrawing the map of Great Britain from a network of human interactions 

Original Harvard Business Review article on corporate networks  

HBR The Rise of Social Graphs for Business 

Explore Your Data: The Fundamentals of Network Analysis  

McKinsey: Tapping the power of hidden influencers  

The structure and dynamics of multilayer networks  

“It’s the connections, stupid!” Silicon Valley vs Cleveland and most other places 

Optimal network clustering for information diffusion  

Networks of Power in the Chinese Government

Handbook of Social Network Analysis

Hidden Power of Social Networks

Another Handbook of Network Analysis

Social Network Analysis, Link Analysis, and Visualization Software 

The Large Scale Network Analysis Project  

Redrawing the map of Great Britain from a network of human interactions 

The diminishing role of hubs in dynamical processes on complex networks  

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