Expand the Network

We can expand the network even further by finding groups of related nodes across the Network – called Network Expansion.

For example, we can identify:

• Communities - groups of people (usually) with the similar network neighbours

• Email Threads

• Topic Detection by Key Phrase Grouping

The communities we detect are not particularly related to friendship or organisational alignment, but are related to the links on the extracted network.

To run Network Expansion:

1. Select Network Expansion

   Result: The Network Expansion Configuration dialog is displayed

   

   If there are no Person entities, the Community Detection option will not be shown.

2. Select the type of Expansion configuration required.

3. Select the Run button.

   Result: A message is displayed while the Network Expansion is processing.

   

   Once processed, depending on the configuration selected, the following entities (nodes) are created:

   • Community Detection adds the Community entity:
     

   • Topic Detection by Key Phrase Grouping adds the Top and Key-phrase entities:
     and

   • Email Thread adds the Thread entity: