
Social Networks have grown into our lives so that we may not be able to live properly without them. However, speaking about Social Network Analysis is not limited to studying online websites and mobile applications we use for networking. SNA covers also converting complex problems to graphs and analyzing them as entities (nodes) and relationships (edges). This workshop aims at first, covering a brief introduction to SNA and then applying that brief knowledge within one of the most known software: Gephi. Gephi is free multi-platform software written in Java. It is called Photoshop for graphs. Therefore, we expect a visually convenient way of analyzing graph. Gephi is a powerful and user friendly software for visualizing and analyzing complex networks. In this workshop you will learn the basics of Social Network Analysis as a trending method for problem solving and then you will learn to work with Gephi and use it for network analysis.

Ph.D. candidate at Amirkabir University of Technology
Neda is a Ph.D. candidate at Amirkabir University of Technology, currently working on Quality of Experience in a Pervasive Computing Environment. She is interested in Data Science, which led her to SNA and has done research in this area.