Network and Social Graph Analysis

Overview

Build and analyze a directed interaction graph from reply chains and parent-child relationships in conversation data. The core principle: edges are replies, nodes are participants, and the asymmetry between who initiates and who responds reveals social structure -- before inferring relationships, measure the graph.

When to Use

• Conversation data with reply chains or parent-child references (forum threads, comment trees, message archives)
• Need to identify a user's frequent interlocutors and interaction patterns
• Measuring whether interactions are reciprocal or one-directional
• Detecting whether a user shifts voice, tone, or vocabulary depending on who they are replying to
• Extracting an ego network for a single user from a larger interaction dataset
• Feeding interaction patterns into downstream persona or archetype analysis