A Tutorial on Social Network Analysis for Database Practitioners
Denilson Barbosa  The purpose of this tutorial is to discuss
social network analysis, focusing on two main themes: the
mathematical foundations and their corresponding computational
aspects; and the gathering of social data and discovery of the
networks. The tutorial is illustratedthrough ReaSoN, a system
for the analysis of research networks in Computing Science under
development at the University of Alberta. ReaSoN comprises of
several networks between researchers and organizations,
extracted automatically from bibliographic databases. The
processes of gathering and cleaning the data are presented in
detail. Alternative ways of comparing the visibility of nodes in
the network are also discussed. The tutorial also covers the
various visualizations used in ReaSoN and other prominent
systems. The tutorial also covers open problems, focusing on
those relevant to database researchers and practitioners This
tutorial will survey the most promising a