social network analysis - how and where to use it
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Social Network Analysis- how and where to use it
FOLLOW THE HEIRS(to follow the money)
• In the end of 2007 VG and E24 conducted a data-intensive and extensive documentation of the close links between the heirs to the 400 largest fortunes in Norway.
• The computer-assisted research formed the basis for a series of articles uncovering close connections within a self-preserving elite.
• The underlying network database was presented to the readers to prove the validity of the findings.
• The database was made clickable and interactive.
• 400 richest families• 157 sons and daughters with FB-profiles• Lists of friends downloaded• Data cleaning and analysis • Tools used: Excel, Access, Notepad, UCINET,
NetDraw
