Detecting Dynamic and Static Geo-social Communities

Abstract

How communities form can depend on the geospatial location of people within a social network. Here, we investigated the implementation of the label propagation algorithm (LPA) and LabelRankT community detection algorithm in Gephi, a graph visualization tool. We researched extending these community detection algorithms to incorporate the geospatial distance between nodes in a network as a limiting factor for the automatic detection of community formation.