UT Arlington research looks to unlock connections among social network data

Big dataA UT Arlington computer science and engineering professor has won a $450,000 Army Research Office grant to develop efficient analytic techniques for combining and understanding the data stored in online social networks. Gautam Das, professor of Computer Science and Engineering  in the College of Engineering , said the grant is to find “implicit edges” in the uses of social networks. Implicit edges connect two seemingly unrelated occurrences on a social media platform. In contrast, explicit edges represent the more