UMD-SocialAction-Phone

VAST 2008 Challenge
Mini Challenge 3:  Cell Phone Calls 

Authors and Affiliations:

Adam Perer, University of Maryland, adamp@cs.umd.edu [PRIMARY contact]

Student team: YES

Tool(s):

SocialAction was used to analyse the social network of the caller logs. It was developed by Adam Perer and Ben Shneiderman at the University of Maryland.

SocialAction integrates statistical measurements from social network analysis with visualization to improve the analytical process.

More information can be found at: http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/socialaction/

 

 

 

Two Page Summary:  NO (but my detailed answer below fits the template).

 

 

 

ANSWERS:


Phone-1: What is the Catalano/Vidro social network, as reflected in the cell phone call data, at the end of the time period  

 

I had trouble interpreting what you wanted submitted, and was still confused by the response. So I included two sets of files:  

 

The social network learned from all days:

PhoneNodes.txt

PhoneLinks.txt


The social network on June 10:

PhoneNodesJun10.txt

PhoneLinksJun10.txt

 

 


Phone-2  Characterize the changes in the Catalano/Vidro social structure over the ten day period.

Detailed Answer:

 

See the PDF: pererVASTAnswer3.pdf.

There is also a corresponding video that demonstrates the findings: pererVASTChallenge2008.mov.