Doreian P. Understanding Large Temporal Networks and Spatial Networks: Exploration, Pattern Searching, Visualization and Network Evolution

Wiley, 2014. — 464 p. — ISBN: 0470714522, 9780470714522This book explores social mechanisms that drive network change and link them to computationally sound models of changing structure to detect patterns. This text identifies the social processes generating these networks and how networks have evolved.Dedication PrefaceTemporal and spatial networks
Modern social network analysis
Network sizes 1.3 Substantive concerns
Computational methods
Data for large temporal networks
Induction and deductionFoundations of methods for large networks
Networks
Types of networks
Large networks
Strategies for analyzing large networks
Statistical network measures
Subnetworks
Connectivity properties of networks
Triangular and short cycle connectivities
Islands
Cores and generalized cores
Important vertices in networks
Transition to methods for large networksMethods for large networks
Acyclic networks
SPC weights in acyclic networks
Probabilistic flow in acyclic network
Nonacyclic citation networks
Two-mode networks from data tables
Bibliographic networks
Weights
Pathfinder
Clustering, blockmodeling and community detection
Clustering symbolic data
Approaches to temporal networks
Levels of analysis
Transition to substantiveScientific citation and other bibliographic networks
The centrality citation network
Preliminary data analyses
Transforming a citation network into an acyclic network
The most important works
SPC weights
Line cuts
Line islands
Other relevant subnetworks for a bounded network
Collaboration networks
A brief look at the SNA literature SN5 networks
On the centrality and SNA collaboration networksCitation patterns in a United States patent data
Patents
Supreme Court decisions regarding patents
The 1976-2006 patent data
Structural Variables through Time
Some patterns of technological development
mportant Sub Networks
Citation Patterns
Comparing citation patterns for two time intervals
Summary and conclusionsThe US Supreme Court Citation NetworkCocited islands of Supreme Court decisions
A Native American Line Island
A 'Perceived Threats to Social Order' line island
Other perceived threats
The Dred Scott Decision
Further reflections on the Supreme Court citation networkFootball as the world's game
A brief historical overview
Football clubs
Football players
Football in England
Player migrations
Institutional arrangements and the organization of football
Court rulings
Specific factors impacting football migration
Some arguments and propositions
Some preliminary results
Player ages when recruited to the EPL
A partial summary of resultsNetworks of player movements to the EPL
Success in the EPL
The overall presence of other countries in the EPL
Network flows of footballers between clubs to reach the EPL
Moves from EPL clubs
Moves solely within the EPL
All trails of footballers to the EPL
Summary and conclusionsMapping Spatial Diversity in the United States of America
Mapping Nations as Spatial Units of the United States
Representing networks in space
Clustering with a relational constraint
Data for constrained spatial clustering
Clustering the US counties with a spatial relational constraintOn studying large networks
Substance
Methods, techniques and algorithms
Network data
Surprises and issues triggered by them
Future work
Two final commentsAppendix: Data Documentation
Bibliographic networks
Patent data
Supreme Court data
Football Data
The USA spatial county networkPerson index
Subject index