led by Dr Srebrenka Letina
The aim of this workshop is to set theoretical and analytical foundations and overview in social network analysis by using of various network-related packages in R such as igraph, satnet, migraph, netsg, etc. We will cover the type of research questions that can be answered with social network analysis, and network visualizations. However, the focus will be on an overview of analytical methods for both descriptive and inferential analysis that are often used in social network research such as node-level, group-level and whole network measures as well as introduction to more sophisticated modelling with exponential random graph models. These methods will be demonstrated using several publicly available social network data.
The duration: 5 hours (with three breaks)
50% lecture; 50% practical
Basic knowledge of R is desirable.