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Introduction to Sociology of Online Social Networks in Morocco. Data Acquisition Process: Results and Connectivity Analysis

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The aim of this paper is to study the Moroccan active community behavior on online social networks, firstly the choice of Facebook as OSN is justified by the statistics that ranks it in the first position compared to other OSNs like Twitter, LinkedIn,... The lack of a specific database dedicated to Moroccan community necessite the implementation of a data acquisition process. In second part, this paper presents macro data connectivity analysis, a visualization was made by applying ForceAtlas2 layout algorithm.

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    http://www.vincos.it/world-map-of-social-networks/.

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    http://www.alexa.com/.

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  1. High School of Technology, Ibn Zohr University, BP:33/S, 80000, Agadir, Morocco

    Yassine El Moudene, Jaafar Idrais & Abderrahim Sabour

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, Opole University, Opole, Poland

    Jolanta Mizera-Pietraszko

  2. Digital Information Research Foundation , Chennai, India

    Pit Pichappan

  3. University of Hassan II , Casablanca, Morocco

    Lahby Mohamed

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El Moudene, Y., Idrais, J., Sabour, A. (2019). Introduction to Sociology of Online Social Networks in Morocco. Data Acquisition Process: Results and Connectivity Analysis. In: Mizera-Pietraszko, J., Pichappan, P., Mohamed, L. (eds) Lecture Notes in Real-Time Intelligent Systems. RTIS 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 756. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91337-7_36

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