Tutorial

K. Fischbach, Oliver Posegga (Univ. of Bamberg):

Analysis of Social Networks

The workshop targets an audience with little or no prior experience in social network analysis (SNA). The goal of the workshop is to provide an introduction to the fundamentals of modeling and understanding social networks using SNA methodologies. Attendees will learn the basic principles of SNA and gain insight into its essential ideas and theoretical foundations. Over the course of the workshop, participants are introduced to well-known network theories and measures by discussing a selection of prominent examples of empirical research. In addition, participants are provided with simple hands-on examples, which cover the processing, computation, visualization and interpretation of social network data using R. Thus, the workshop offers a theoretical introduction to SNA and a first practical experience in analyzing empirical social network data. 

Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops with a fully prepared R environment, including the packages “igraph” and “ggplot2”.