Information diffusion in online social networks

  • Authors:
  • Adrien Guille

  • Affiliations:
  • Université Lumière Lyon 2, Bron, France

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2013 Sigmod/PODS Ph.D. symposium on PhD symposium
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Online social networks play a major role in the spread of information at very large scale and it becomes essential to provide means to analyze this phenomenon. Analyzing information diffusion proves to be a challenging task since the raw data produced by users of these networks are a flood of ideas, recommendations, opinions, etc. The aim of this PhD work is to help in the understanding of this phenomenon. So far, our contributions are the following: (i) a survey of developments in the field; (ii) T-BaSIC, a graph-based model for information diffusion prediction; (iii) SONDY, an open source platform that helps understanding social network users' interests and activity by providing emerging topics and events detection as well as network analysis functionalities.