in reply to Social network analysis and Perl

Pardon my ignorance, but what is "social network analysis" anyway? :)

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Re: Re: Social network analysis and Perl
by jmerelo (Sexton) on Oct 29, 2003 at 06:49 UTC
    It's something you can't do with Perl, at least off-the-shelf :-)
    No, seriously, it's about analyzing large networks and finding outstanding properties of the network itself (such as density, shortest and longest path) and of each node (how it's connected to the rest of the network).
      Sounds like a complex software which will eat a lot of traffic and CPU power, without giving you much more then you already know. :)