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1. INTRODUCTION TO THE PROBLEM
Social network analysis is focused on the patterning of the social
relationships that link social actors. Typically, network data take the
form of a square-actor by actor-binary adjacency matrix, where
each row and each column in the matrix represents a social actor. A
cell entry is 1 if and only if a pair of actors is linked by some social
relationship of interest (Freeman 1989).
— "Using Galois Lattices to Represent Network Data,"
by Linton C. Freeman and Douglas R. White,
Sociological Methodology, Vol. 23, pp. 127–146 (1993)
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| 766 | Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications – WASSERMAN, FAUST – 1994 |
| 100 | The act of creation – Koestler – 1964 |
| 75 | Visual Thinking – Arnheim – 1969 |
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