Mapping weblog communities
<|reference_start|>Mapping weblog communities: Websites of a particular class form increasingly complex networks, and new tools are needed to map and understand them. A way of visualizing this complex network is by mapping it. A map highlights which members of the community have similar interests, and reveals the underlying social network. In this paper, we will map a network of websites using Kohonen's self-organizing map (SOM), a neural-net like method generally used for clustering and visualization of complex data sets. The set of websites considered has been the Blogalia weblog hosting site (based at http://www.blogalia.com/), a thriving community of around 200 members, created in January 2002. In this paper we show how SOM discovers interesting community features, its relation with other community-discovering algorithms, and the way it highlights the set of communities formed over the network.<|reference_end|>
@article{merelo-guervos2003mapping,
    title={Mapping weblog communities},
    author={Juan-J. Merelo-Guervos, Beatriz Prieto, Fatima Rateb, Fernando Tricas},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0312047},
    year={2003},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cs/0312047},
    primaryClass={cs.NE}
}