making the complex less complicated: an introduction to social network analysis
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Making the complex less complicated:An introduction to network analysis
Martin Hawksey
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On Distributed Communications: 1. Introduction to Distributed Communications Network
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Moreno (1934) Who Shall Survive?Copyright: Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Co.
Origins
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Ingram (2012), Visualising Data: Seeing is Believinghttp://www.richardingram.co.uk/2012/12/visualising-data-seeing-is-believing/
Network Measures
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Ingram (2012), Visualising Data: Seeing is Believinghttp://www.richardingram.co.uk/2012/12/visualising-data-seeing-is-believing/
Network Measures
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PageRank
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Examples
Bakharia and Dawson (2011) SNAPP: A Bird’s-eye View of Temporal Participant Interaction https://www.slideshare.net/aneeshabakharia/snapp-learning-analytics-and-knowledge-conference-2011
Learner Isolation Facilitator Centric
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Examples
Bakharia and Dawson (2011) SNAPP: A Bird’s-eye View of Temporal Participant Interaction https://www.slideshare.net/aneeshabakharia/snapp-learning-analytics-and-knowledge-conference-2011
Non Interacting Groups Facilitator Bias
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ExamplesSituational Awareness
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Graphs can be a powerful way to represent relationships between data, but they are also a very abstract concept, which means that they run the danger of meaning something only to the creator of the graph. Often, simply showing the structure of the data says very little about what it actually means, even
though it’s a perfectly accurate means of representing the data. Everything looks like a graph, but almost nothing should
ever be drawn as one. Ben Fry in ‘Visualizing Data’
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https://www.ted.com/talks/eric_berlow_how_complexity_leads_to_simplicity@mhawksey
alt.ac.ukEric Berlow: Simplifying complexity
https://www.ted.com/talks/eric_berlow_how_complexity_leads_to_simplicity@mhawksey
alt.ac.ukEric Berlow: Simplifying complexity
https://www.ted.com/talks/eric_berlow_how_complexity_leads_to_simplicity@mhawksey
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Key points
◊ Getting to this and you are over
80% or the way
◊ There are a lot of very
knowledgeable people in the
community willing to help
◊ Go explore … and have fun
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Getting Social Network Data
◊ Using Twitter as a data source: an overview of
social media research tools (updated for 2017)
◊ Twitter: How to archive event hashtags and create
an interactive visualization of the conversation
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Thank you!
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