Mapping weblog communities
| dc.creator | Merelo-Guervos, Juan-J. | |
| dc.creator | Prieto, Beatriz | |
| dc.creator | Rateb, Fatima | |
| dc.creator | Tricas, Fernando | |
| dc.date | 2003-12-20 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T03:20:46Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T03:20:46Z | |
| dc.description | Websites of a particular class form increasingly complex networks, and new tools are needed to map and understand them. A way of visualizing this complex network is by mapping it. A map highlights which members of the community have similar interests, and reveals the underlying social network. In this paper, we will map a network of websites using Kohonen's self-organizing map (SOM), a neural-net like method generally used for clustering and visualization of complex data sets. The set of websites considered has been the Blogalia weblog hosting site (based at http://www.blogalia.com/), a thriving community of around 200 members, created in January 2002. In this paper we show how SOM discovers interesting community features, its relation with other community-discovering algorithms, and the way it highlights the set of communities formed over the network. | |
| dc.description | 22 pages, 8 figures, to be submitted to Computer Networks | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0312047 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0312047 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/31942 | |
| dc.subject | Neural and Evolutionary Computing | |
| dc.subject | J.4;H.3.5;I.2.m | |
| dc.title | Mapping weblog communities | |
| dc.type | text |