James Cook
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Running NodeXL, Entering Edge Lists and Making Visualization Choices
This brief video assumes that you have already installed the social network analysis plugin NodeXL (if you haven't, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yCjhTuLA1o online) and are interested in entering edge lists and making some elementary visualization choices. The video is intended for an introductory undergraduate audience, but should also be useful for the generalist who wants to get started in visualizing social networks but who doesn't have a deep methodological grounding.
Related topics : social network visualizations
UMA Analyzing Social Media: Visualization Homework
This brief video contains tips in starting visualization for students taking the undergraduate Analyzing Social Media course at the University of Maine at Augusta. Our focus here: importing Les Miserables network data into NodeXL.
Related topics : social media visual / social media tips / social media courses
From Two Mode Networks to One Mode Networks for Comparison and Explanation
This video for the undergraduate social network analysis course at the University of Maine at Augusta considers a number of ways in which 2-mode matrices can be converted to 1-mode matrices as a way of comparing node characteristics. To provide a concrete example, real-life 2-mode information from the Maine State Legislature is included. Why would we want to work with 2-mode information? The explanation of variation in an outcome of importance is one good reason.
Related topics : social network analysis courses
Working with 2-Mode Social Network Data: Garbage In, Garbage Out
In this video for the undergraduate Social Networks course at the University of Maine at Augusta, Assistant Professor James Cook reviews an assignment to convert 2-mode data to 1-mode data made during Lecture 7 -- available on the web at http://www.umasocialmedia.com/socialnetworks/lecture-7-tracking-political-networks/ -- and considers a pitfall in making that choice. Is stuffing all sorts of data of different types into a UCINET matrix a good idea? No, because UCINET will often try to...
Related topics : social network data
Social Networks Assignment: The Kevin Bacon Game
In this video, I describe the social structure of the Kevin Bacon Game and how it relates to affiliation and network distance. I describe the elements of a related assignment for the undergraduate social network course of the University of Maine at Augusta, on the web at http://uma.edu .
Related topics : video game social network
History of Social Media
This brief video lecture for the University of Maine at Augusta provides some historical reference to the "on-line" and "board" nature of current social media. A tip of the lens to Ronald R. Kline and his excellent book, Consumers in the Country: http://www.amazon.com/Consumers-Country-Technology-America-Revisiting/dp/0801871158
Related topics : brief history of the social media / social media tips
Welcome Video for COM/SOC 375: Social Networks at UMA
This video orients students getting ready to take the undergraduate social networks course at the University of Maine at Augusta, including links to the course syllabus and the online lecture platform, as well as details about course texts.
Related topics : social network course syllabus
Visualizing Social Networks and Considering Alternatives
This video for COM/SOC 375, the undergraduate Social Networks class at the University of Maine at Augusta, considers the visualization of networks. Why do we think of structures of communication and affiliation as networks? Why don't we think of them as waves, or adjacent rectangles, or Venn diagrams?
Related topics : social network visualizations
Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing Semantic Network
This semantic network of word adjacencies unfolds dynamically as Beatrice and Benedick parry in Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, Act I. Red ties indicate semantic connections in lines by Beatrice; blue ties indicate semantic connections in lines by Benedick. Accompanying audio is taken from the public domain at Librivox -- http://librivox.org/much-ado-about-nothing-by-william-shakespeare/ -- and the semantic network is visualized using NodeXL software. This video is produced...
Related topics : semantic social network
UMA Social Networks Course: Welcome!
Welcome to the University of Maine at Augusta's Social Networks course! This video is a brief greeting and a reminder that all expectations for the course are contained in our syllabus, which enrolled students may find at http://bb.courses.maine.edu -- we have no textbook but we have a lot to do. Here's to getting started!
Related topics : social network course syllabus