Erika LegaraNov 23, 2022
Every time I conclude a Network Science or Network Analytics course, especially when offered to MBA and EMBA students, some learners would express bemusement on why academic institutions do not provide net sci as a required general education course in both secondary and tertiary education programs.
Show threadStephNov 24, 2022
@eflegara As in social network analysis?
Show threadDavid SpencerNov 24, 2022
@steph @eflegara I get to do one lecture+tutorial on network theory in a unit for communications students, and after that this semester one student voluntarily made a map of all interactions in their tutorial group's discussion forum, which showed interesting clusters.. really had the sense they found it a useful and intuitive theoretical framework
Show threadStephNov 24, 2022
@busabx @eflegara Nice. Do the quantify any of the observations? i,e. Where or who the important nodes? Density? Or cohesion? Or compare networks?
I use SNA as a means to model distributed situation awareness in command and control teams.
Show threadDavid Spencer
@steph @eflegara We touch on some related concepts but mostly to make it accessible quickly it's framed as different kinds of nodes - hub, liaison, bridge, isolate - in the lecture I make a visualisation from data (this semester on talk on twitter about the film The Woman King, as it had just been released), then in the tutorial students make a map of their high school friends network. Wish I could teach a whole unit on it.
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Show threadStephNov 24, 2022
@eflegara @busabx Nice visualization. What software? I use R.
Show threadDavid SpencerNov 25, 2022
@steph @eflegara yes, I use R too, for getting and processing the data, but then export nodes and edges to Gephi for the visualisation.