Visualização Interativa de Redes Sociais: um Estudo de Caso em Redes de Colaboração Cient́ıfica

The interest in the study of social networks is growing due to the recent popularization and use of these forms of organization and communication. Usually, a social network is represented by a graph which allows to express individuals as nodes and their relationships as edges between nodes, as well as using computational techniques that facilitate the characterization and measurement of interactions between individuals. This work deals with the visualization of scientific collaboration networks aiming at minimizing the complexity of the graphical representation. Since all individuals’ collaboration networks are usually plotted in a single node-edge diagram, we explore the operation of union of graphs in order to show a collaboration network incrementally. Starting with the network of a single individual, we expand the diagram by incorporating other individuals’ networks dynamically.