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Vistruclizer: A Structural Visualizer For Multi-Dimensional Social Networks, Bingtian Dai, Agus Trisnajaya Kwee, Ee Peng Lim

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

With the popularity of Web 2.0 sites, social networks today increasingly involve different kinds of relationships among different types of users in a single network. Such social networks are said to be multi-dimensional. Analyzing multi-dimensional networks is a challenging research task that requires intelligent visualization techniques. In this paper, we therefore propose a visual analytics tool called ViStruclizer to analyze structures embedded in a multi-dimensional social network. ViStruclizer incorporates structure analyzers that summarize social networks into both node clusters each representing a set of users, and edge clusters representing relationships between users in the node clusters. ViStruclizer supports user interactions …