System for and method of generating and visualizing sharing event cascade structures associated with content sharing events that occur across a network

A system for generating and visualizing one or more sharing event cascade structures associated with one or more content sharing events that occur across a network, the system comprising:

• a programmed computing apparatus configured to generate a plurality of sharing event nodes in the one or more sharing event cascade structures based on data associated with at least one of a system log and a database, wherein each sharing event cascade structure graphically represents a history of one or more content items being shared among a plurality of users of the network;
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• a programmed computing apparatus configured to present, on a display device, a content sharing visualization diagram that illustrates the one or more sharing event cascade structures and enables a user to analyze sharing patterns associated with the plurality of users of the network.