摘要：This paper explores the comparison of social networks and gives a description of a method I developed for comparing many social networks. I developed this new technique by using multi-dimensional scaling to differentiate between several social networks. Others have used various methods and factors for comparing these social networks, such as descriptive network statistics, triads census and network similarities. These other methods compare only one feature of the given networks and are numerical in output. This new method has the advantage of comparing several network features and being an easy graphical method for the end user to compare multiple social networks.
关键词：Network comparison ; social network analysis ; multi-dimensional Scaling
