Social Network Visualization

FREEMAN, Linton C., 2012. Social Network Visualization, Methods of. In: MEYERS, Robert A. (ed.), Computational Complexity: Theory, Techniques, and Applications. New York, NY: Springer. p. 2981–2998. ISBN 978-1-4614-1800-9.

Social network visualization refers to the practice of constructing pictorial images of the connections linking social actors. The use of such images provides two benefits. It allows investigators to gain new insights into the patterning of social connections, and it helps investigators to communicate their results to others.