Data Preprocessing for Dynamic Social Network Analysis

The social network analysis is of significant interest in various application domains due to its inherent richness. Social network analysis like any other data analysis is limited by the quality and quantity of data and for which data preprocessing plays the key role. Before the discovery of useful information or pattern from the social network data set, the original data set must be converted to a suitable format. In this chapter we present various phases of social network data preprocessing. In this context, the authors discuss various challenges in each phase. The goal of this chapter is to illustrate the importance of data preprocessing for social network analysis.