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On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Michael G. Cayley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> What a great illustration of under investment in social network analysis.

Michael:

I don't really see it that way.  Social network analysis is a fairly
specialized area of knowledge, tools, and methods; the community of
people that are likely to be interested in it (and to use that phrase
to describe it) is considerably smaller than the number of people that
might be involved in Facebook, or be interested in it.  Comparing
these two things is sort of like comparing searches for "ballistics"
and "basketball".

(Also, people often search for things like Facebook as a "navigational
query", i.e., a convenient way of getting to the home page.  It's easy
to overinterpret search volumes, and especially relative search
volumes.)

Joshua O'Madadhain

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>  > Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 15:22:35 +0300> From: [log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: [SOCNET] Network analysis of Google Analytics data on a website> To: [log in to unmask]> > ***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org *****> > Rick, I can't answer your question but I would suggest another> Google's tool, Google Trends <http://www.google.com/trends>, comparing> hits from searches on pairs of terms. For instance, this was what I've> just got comparing social network analysis and facebook:> > http://www.google.com/trends?q=social+network+analysis%2C+facebook> > Gloomy, isn't it?> > Regards,> > --Moses> > On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Rick Davies <[log in to unmask]> wrote:> > ***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org *****> >> > Hi all> >> > Has anyone done a network analysis of the flow of traffic within their> > website, using Google Analytics data? For every page on a website tracked by> > GA there is the following data on the flow of visitors to and from that> > page:> >> > % of visitors *entering* on this page> > % of visitors *coming from Previous Pages *> > which are then listed individually with %'s broken down> > % of *Exits* from this page> > % of visitors *going to Next Page*> > which are then listed individually with %s broken down> >> > You can even down load the data in CSV format> >> > regards, rick davies> >> > --> > Rick Davies (Dr),> > Monitoring and Evaluation Consultant, Cambridge, United Kingdom.> > Mobile: (44) 07855 766 354, Skype: rickjdavies,> > Email: [log in to unmask]> > Monitoring and Evaluation NEWS at http://www.mande.co.uk> > Homepage at http://www.shimbir.demon.co.uk> >> > _____________________________________________________________________> > SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social> > network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send> > an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line> > UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message.> >> > _____________________________________________________________________> SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social> network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send> an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line> UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message.
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