The Online Community Guide. Community vs. Social Network. Michael Wu, Ph.D. is Lithium's Principal Scientist of Analytics, digging into the complex dynamics of social interaction and online communities. He's a regular blogger on the Lithosphere and previously wrote in the Analytic Science blog. You can follow him on Twitter at mich8elwu. Welcome back from the Memorial Day long weekend! In my last post, I promised that I’d cover some new topics this time, so I am going to share with you a research project that I’ve been conducting recently on the relationship between social networks and communities.
Since 2008, “social media” has become a heavily-used buzz word in the corporate world. Well, they are all correct to some extent, and these are functional classifications of social media. Human social networks and communities actually pre-date their online counterpart for millennia. Social networks Everyone has their own social network (whether online or offline). Communities Communities are held together by common interest. In Summary. DV Blogs « Data Visualization. Software: Visualization and Data Mining. Business Intelligence (BI) Software | Reviews of the Best Business Analytics Tools.