AssignYL Analysis

VAST 2018 Mini Case 3: Net of Justice Has Long Arms

BACKGROUND

DATA PREPARATION

EXPLORATIONS

NETWORK ANALYSIS

CONCLUSIONS

Narrow down the Suspects

Findings	Visualization Evidence
Closeness & Betweeness With informations gained from exploration part, we may tell that there are people who are invovled in suspicious connections without any interactions. So for the first step of the analysis, we may filter out people by degree less than 6. Closeness: Clossenss represents the average shortest path scores from one node to another. The higher closeness of a node, the more center a node is. People with higher closeness centrality in the graph tend to have faster influence over the network. As we can tell from the graph of node size plotted by closeness, Meryl Pastuch, Lindsy Henion, Richard Fox, and Jose Ringwald are people with relatively high clossness, and Melita Scarpaci is someone with high closeness despite of the low weight. Betweeness: Betweeness measures the number of times a node has lied on the shortest path between 2 other nodes. The higher betweeness of a node, the more influential to the flow system that node is. This is implying that Lindsy Henion, Jose Ringwald, Richard Fox and Tobi Gatlin - the group of people with high betweeness - may be the ones who hold authority within a group.
Break down by Months Febuary & December: All communications has been increasing over the past 3 years, except for Febuary and Decemeber. This may require further researches. Meetings: the number of meetings has been increasing drastically throughout the years. This is implying that people in Kasios are gradually shifting toward face-to-face communications. A more interesting question could be: what's causing the face-to-face shift since there is not much expansion in Kasios.