social-graph

Twitter Data Mining: Degrees of separation

What ready available algorithms could I use to data mine twitter to find out the degrees of separation between 2 people on twitter. How does it change when the social graph keeps changing and updating constantly. And then, is there any dump of twitter social graph data which I could use rather than making so many API calls to start ove...

how do you create a social graph?

this is a totally unfamiliar area for me. can anyone point me in the right direction on how to create a social graph and the best way to represent it? i'm building a website in C#/asp net and need to create a "friends" feature... is this type of thing usually stored entirely in the DB? if so, how? ...

Difference between graph database: Neo4j & AllegroGraph

Hi All, What is the difference between this 2 graph DB: Neo4j and AllegroGraph? Which is better for JAVA Web programming? Thanks Erwin ...

Different users in the website and the facebook fan page with the like button

I have a facebook page for the bussiness running and with 27 like users, i already created the like button in the original website, and the amount of users is differents, in the website we have just 13 like users, we tried in iframe and XFBML, and always the same, if we put just a / at the end of the address of the website we had just on...

Trust metrics and related algorithms

I'm trying to learn more about trust metrics (including related algorithms) and how user voting, ranking and rating systems can be wired to stiffle abuse. I've read abstract articles and papers describing trust metrics but haven't seen any actual implementations. My goal is to create a system that allows users to vote on other users and ...

Mapping the link network between blogs using R?

I would like any advice on how to create and visualize a link map between blogs so to reflect the "social network" between them. Here is how I am thinking of doing it: Start with one (or more) blog home page and collect all the links on that page Remove all the links that are internal links (that is, If I start from www.website.com. ...

Sites like Flowtown and Rapportive: How do they work?

Hi, Sites like flowtown and rapportive are getting more and more popular. Basically they take an email and return all the social media sites attached to it. Are they just grabbing the info through the API from each individual site (which seems time consuming setting it up for each one) or is there something else? Thanks ...

Problem obtaing profile pictures from Facebook Graph API

Hey! Have gotten the foundation in place, but now, finding myself wanting to play around with my application's user's profile pictures; I'm stumped....and have been for quite some hours... Firstly, my oauth_token / access_token is obtained, using the official (though Alpha ;-) Facebook C# SDK and only utilize the Graph API. FBap...

how to query ALL the pages that a facebook user shared with "like it" button, using the Facebook API

hello, I am trying to get ALL the pages that a Facebook user shared with the "like it" button. No luck so far to get them all (some work, but some others don't). I tried the graph API https://graph.facebook.com/me/likes And FQL select object_id from like WHERE user_id = [userId] But, testing with my profile, I am still missing man...

Redis and PHP (Rediska) intersect on set

Hey guys, I'm trying to do some tricks with a graph (node/edges) dataset. In this case a set of data where person x follows person y (direct relation). I want to load this data (from a mysql table) into redis (have it running). I've chosen to use Rediska because I use PHP and it seems stable. Rediska has very limited documentation an...