Tracking the dynamic variations in a social network formed through shared interests
Abstract
We tracked the dynamics of a social network formed by a shared interest in movies. Users-, movie ratings-, and rental date-data from the Netflix Prize dataset were used to construct a series of date-filtered social networks, wherein viewers were linked when they rented the same movie and gave the same rating. We obtained a nearly constant high clustering coefficient (0.60 – 0.85), and a low average path length (1.4 – 2.3) indicating a static 'small-world' network despite the dynamic behavior of the borrowers.
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2010-03-01
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Keywords
social network; time series analysis; complex systems; small-world network
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