A workbench to construct and re-use network analysis workflows: concept, implementation, and example case

  • Authors:
  • Tilman Göhnert;Andreas Harrer;Tobias Hecking;H. Ulrich Hoppe

  • Affiliations:
  • University Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany;Catholic University Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Eichstaett, Germany;University Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany;University Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In this paper we introduce the concept of a web-based analytics workbench to support researchers of social networks in their analytic processes. Making explicit these processes allows for sound design, re-use, and automated execution using an authoring system for visual representations of these analytic workflows. The workbench is implemented according to a flexible technical framework in which external and newly-defined analytic components can be integrated and used in conjunction with other analytic components. As a showcase we discuss a complex analytic process.