Week 10: Social Networks
 Prof. Jack Reilly
 Fall 2026

Due This Week: Problem Set 8
Lecture: Social Network Visualization
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Readings & Reference Material
•	Core Reading
–	Ognyanova, “Static and dynamic network visualization with R”
–	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, Fortunato, 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.
Network Visualization Examples
Social networks have inspired a lot of creativity when it comes to thinking about things in relational contexts. A few examples are below to spark your interest and imagination ahead of your problem set this week.
•	Hamilton (Musical)
•	Game of Thrones (TV Show and Books) see also news coverage here
•	Myst (Computer Game)
•	Biblical Gospels (Religion)
•	Star Wars (Movies)
•	Marvel (Movies/Comics)
Due Next Week: Problem Set 9