TY  - CONF
TI  - Honeycomb: Visual Analysis of Large Scale Social Networks
AU  - Ham, Frank Van
AU  - Schulz, Hans-Jörg
AU  - Dimicco, Joan M
A2  - Gross, Tom
A2  - Gulliksen, Jan
A2  - Kotzé, Paula
A2  - Oestreicher, Lars
A2  - Palanque, Philippe
A2  - Prates, Raquel Oliveira
A2  - Winckler, Marco
T3  - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
AB  - The rise in the use of social network sites allows us to collect large amounts of user reported data on social structures and analysis of this data could provide useful insights for many of the social sciences. This analysis is typically the domain of Social Network Analysis, and visualization of these structures often proves invaluable in understanding them. However, currently available visual analysis tools are not very well suited to handle the massive scale of this network data, and often resolve to displaying small ego networks or heavily abstracted networks. In this paper, we present Honeycomb, a visualization tool that is able to deal with much larger scale data (with millions of connections), which we illustrate by using a large scale corporate social networking site as an example. Additionally, we introduce a new probability based network metric to guide users to potentially interesting or anomalous patterns and discuss lessons learned during design and implementation.
C1  - Uppsala, Sweden
C3  - Proceedings of the 12th IFIP TC13 Conference in Human-Computer Interaction, Part II
DA  - 2009///
PY  - 2009
DO  - 10.1007/978-3-642-03658-3_47
VL  - 5727
SP  - 429
EP  - 442
PB  - Springer
SN  - 978-3-642-03657-6
ER  -