James Cook
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Social Media Data Mining & Analysis with Raspberry Pi (Part 1: Setup)
This video is the first in a series that walks through all necessary steps for social media data mining and analysis with Raspberry Pi. Part 1 describes all the necessary hardware for the project and how to set up that hardware in just five minutes. Recorded for the University of Maine at Augusta.
Related topics : social media analysis
The Structural Basics of Social Networks (Undergraduate Primer)
This video produced for the University of Maine at Augusta introduces the following basic structural elements of a social network: nodes, ties, direction, distance, cut points and density.
Related topics : structure of social network
COM/SOC 375: Working with Complete 2-Mode Political Network Data
In this video for the undergraduate social networks course at the University of Maine at Augusta, we progress from working with small numbers of nodes and one type of 2-mode data to working with complete data a sample social environment -- the Maine State Legislature -- and many types of 2-mode data. It's time to start thinking about the multiple kinds of relations that exist between nodes, and how those different relations vary and impact one another.
Related topics : social network data
UMA Social Networks: Social Facts
In a short lecture segment for COM/SOC 375, we consider: what is real? What is a fact? Working from Emile Durkheim's idea of a social fact, two essential and unavoidable facts regarding social networks are considered.
Related topics : social network facts
Social Networks 375 at UMA: An Introduction
A brief video introduction to COM/SOC 375, an undergraduate course in social network analysis.
Related topics : introduction to social network analysis
Introduction: R and IGraph for Edge Lists and Social Network Graphs
This video is a very basic introduction to the use of R in conjunction with the package igraph to take a social network, describe it in the form of an edge list, and generate an image of a network graph. This is intended to be a beginner's video for those entering into the use of R and igraph for the first time, not an encyclopedic reference. Produced for the social science program at the University of Maine at Augusta.
Related topics : social network list
SOC 101: Crime and Deviance as Sociological Phenomena
In this lecture video for UMA (http://uma.edu), we dip briefly into the oddity of Earnest Hooton and his bioracial theories of crime before considering the alternative: that deviance and crime are affected strongly by social context. What that social context might be depends on the vantage point you bring to sociology as a functionalist, conflict theorist, symbolic interactionist or social network analysts. After a review of theories from each of these sociological paradigms, we consider a...
Related topics : social network theory sociology
Social Networks: Moving Data from UCINET to NodeXL
In this segment for COM/SOC 375, the undergraduate Social Networks class at the University of Maine at Augusta, we work through the installation of the NodeXL extension and the task of moving network data from UCINET to NodeXL, despite the challenges of disappearing files. Recorded September 21, 2012.
Related topics : social network ucinet
Social Networks: Homophily and the Ripple Effect
This online lecture for an undergraduate social networks class at the University of Maine at Augusta reviews the principle of homophily in social ties and the work by H. Russell Bernard and James Moody to chart the ripple effects of knowledge about events across network distance.
Related topics : social online network
Installing R and running igraph on a Mac
The research program R and the R package for social network analysis called igraph don't exactly install and run the same way on an Apple Macintosh computer as they do on a Windows computer. This video shows how to install R and run a script with the igraph package on it when you're using a Mac computer. There are a few options you'll need to click when installing igraph, and there's a very simple step that differs from the typical Windows way of running a script. First, select all the text...
Related topics : social network analysis research