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BSS RINS Lecture 10.11.13: Social Network Theory & HIV
The Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences presents "Alcohol Use Among Populations at Greater Risk for HIV: Findings from China and Baltimore, MD," featuring Dr. Cui Yang (Johns Hopkins).
Dr. Yang's research is concerned with HIV risk behaviors and substance use, particularly with disadvantaged communities in both domestic and international settings. Her research activities have centered around three areas: 1) to utilize advanced statistical techniques to evaluate HIV prevention...
From: BrownBSS
Related topics : social network analysis theory / analysis of social networking
Text Analysis Masterclass
'How do we control what we measure using quantitative text analysis methods?'
Dr Ben Lauderdale from the Department of Methodology at the London School of Economics and Political Science delivered a special masterclass on Tuesday 24th May 2016. Ben’s research focuses on the measurement of political preferences from survey, voting, network and text with a particular focus on using text data.
This event presented the latest developments in ways social scientists can use text and provides an...
From: DPIR Oxford
Related topics : social science network research
Research Cooperative Video 1
Dr Matthews, creator and administrator of The Research Cooperative, introduces this NPO social network for a fundraising project hosted by Rocket Hub, the 'crowdfunding machine'. See http://rkthb.co/13044
The Research Cooperative is an online meeting place for researchers, science writers, students, editors, proofreaders, translators, illustrators, publishers and others.
It is an international home for better research communication, for all languages, topics, countries. Volunteer or paid...
From: Peter Matthews
Related topics : social science network research
SEiSMiC Social Innovation in urban areas
SEiSMiC is a project that helps tackle Europe's biggest urban problems through citizen engagement, identifying social innovation needs, and contributing to future urban policies and research strategies. It builds diverse networks of urban stakeholders to propose effective, widely agreed solutions. It then engages the public in creative ways, so that research learns from citizens, and citizens learn from Research.
SEiSMiC will set up national networks in 10 European countries with the aim of...
From: SEiSMiC Project
Related topics : urban social network
How Websites Leak Your Personal Information
Craig Wills, head of WPI's Computer Science Department, is an authority on online privacy. His research has shown that many social networking sites leak personal information to third-party advertising sites, giving these sites the ability to connect our browsing behavior with our real-world identities.
From: WPI
Related topics : advertising on social network sites / identity social networking sites
Transformations to Sustainability: A research programme and growing knowledge network
Researchers from the Transformations to Sustainability community present the research programme and its networks and projects at the #undisciplinedenvironments conference held in March 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden. Speakers include Leah Temper, speaking on academic-activist co-produced knowledge for environmental justice; David Kronlid, speaking on transgressive social learning for social-ecological sustainability in times of climate change, and Marco Armiero, Justainability (Towards ‘just...
From: International Social Science Council
Related topics : social science network research
Working With Two Mode Social Network Data in R
This video demonstrates two methods for importing and transforming 2-mode network data (also known as bipartite networks or affiliation matrices) in the open-source research program R. Method #1 involves direct input of an affiliation matrix into R, a method good for relatively small matrices. For larger matrices, it's easier to enter affiliation data into a spreadsheet and import a .csv (comma-delimited) file into R. One hypothetical affiliation matrix and one actual affiliation matrix of...
From: James Cook
Related topics : social network affiliate program