Having a hard time classifying to which science this research belongs. On one hand it deals with graphs so it must be math. On the other hand, you have people, interpersonal relations with all the baggage of ambiguities - so is this sociology?
Interdisciplinary. It's an application of mathematics to other fields. Which may, in turn, feed back into mathematics as new concepts and structures are revealed.
I see this is the perfect example of the cross disciplinary nature of data science.
I do graph work, and I find myself regularly reading papers in math, epidemiology, computational social science and natural language processing. Often the problems are almost exactly the same, and approaches are very similar.
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Social network analysis (SNA) is the process of investigating social structures through the use of network and graph theories.
I do graph work, and I find myself regularly reading papers in math, epidemiology, computational social science and natural language processing. Often the problems are almost exactly the same, and approaches are very similar.