Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship. Wealth of Networks. Intro to Social Network Methods: Social Network Data. 1.
Social network data On one hand, there really isn't anything about social network data that is all that unusual. Social network analysts do use a specialized language for describing the structure and contents of the sets of observations that they use. But, network data can also be described and understood using the ideas and concepts of more familiar methods, like cross-sectional survey research.