Week 10: Social Networks
Data Wrangling and Visualization
Due This Week: Problem Set 8
Readings & Reference Material
Reading
- Core Reading
- Ognyanova, βStatic and dynamic network visualization with Rβ
- DMSS, ch 13
- Reference Materials
- Newman, Networks.
- A technical and highly interdisciplinary look at networks, spanning physical networks, biological networks, social networks, and more. Comprehensive, lots of network theory.
- Menczer, Fortuanto, and Davis, A First Course in Network Science.
- A short introduction focused on networks in a broad sense, with a focus on computation for network analysis in Python.
- Jackson, Social and Economic Network Analysis.
- As befits the name, a focus on economic and social networks.
- Scott, Social Network Analysis.
- An introduction for beginners, with a focus on substance over computation.
- Newman, Networks.
Network Visualization Examples
Social Networks has inspired a lot of creativity when it comes to think about things in relational contexts. A few examples are below to spark your interest and imagination ahead of your problem set this week.