3rd Session- Social Network Analysis 1
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This session we deal with the following questions: I. How can we formalize networks? II. How can we describe the structure of networks? III. How can we analyze a network with a software? |
This session's tasks consist of 2 activities and one voluntary one:
1- Lecture: Watch the following lectures and answer the interactive questions (which are graded). We recommend to use the following slide print-outs to take notes.
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3slidesPerPage_UCCSS_Fowler.pdf Download 3slidesPerPage_UCCSS_Fowler.pdf
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UCCSS_Fowler_1: Connected (3min) |
1slidePerPage_UCCSS_SNA1_Hilbert.pdf Download 1slidePerPage_UCCSS_SNA1_Hilbert.pdf
3slidesPerPage_UCCSS_SNA1_Hilbert.pdf Download 3slidesPerPage_UCCSS_SNA1_Hilbert.pdf
I. How can we formalize networks?
UCCSS 3-01: Social = Network (5min)
UCCSS 3-04: Nodes and/or Links (6min)
UCCSS 3-05: Strength of Ties (9min)
UCCSS 3-06: Formalizing Networks (4min)
II. How can we describe the structure of networks?
UCCSS 3-07: Network Jargon (8min)
UCCSS 3-09: Roaming the Network (12min)
UCCSS 3-10: Communities (5min)
UCCSS 3-12: Network Centrality (18min)
UCCSS 3-13: Community Detection (6min)
UCCSS 3-14: Eigenvector Centrality (6min)
UCCSS 3-15: Three kinds of measures (2min)
III. How can we analyze a network with a software?
UCCSS 3-16: Network Analysis Software (5min)
UCCSS_LAB_SNA: Data Wrangling (12min)
UCCSS_LAB_SNA: Network Measures (24min)
(total 2h 52min)
2- Lab:
You will analyze a social network with help of the software Gephi: https://gephi.org/users/download
Links to an external site. (also available as online virtualization: https://www.rollapp.com/app/gephi
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First, get familiar with the task with help of these tutorial videos: UCCSS_LAB_SNA: Data Wrangling (12min) & UCCSS_LAB_SNA: Network Measures (24min) (see last two lecture videos) ; and this PDF tutorial: UCCSS_Lab_SNA-1.pdf Download UCCSS_Lab_SNA-1.pdf
You find your individually assigned task here: 3rd Session- Social Network Analysis
If you run into problems, please feel free to ask questions in Piazza and/or coordinate with others through Study Groups Coordination .
Optional / Voluntary / Complementary:
- Christakis, N. A., & Fowler, J. H. (2007). The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network over 32 Years Links to an external site.. New England Journal of Medicine, 357(4), 370–379.
- Bond, R. M., Fariss, C. J., Jones, J. J., Kramer, A. D. I., Marlow, C., Settle, J. E., & Fowler, J. H. (2012). A 61-million-person experiment in social influence and political mobilization Links to an external site.. Nature, 489(7415), 295–298.
- Fowler, J. H., & Christakis, N. A. (2008). Dynamic spread of happiness in a large social network: longitudinal analysis over 20 years in the Framingham Heart Study Links to an external site.. BMJ, 337, a2338.
- Prof. Fowler from UC San Diego sitting down with Stephen Colbert on Comedy Central: www.cc.com/video-clips/c3suh9/the-colbert-report-james-fowler
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