Visualizing Networks Online for KM4Dev « Net-Map Toolbox Posted on May 25, 2008 by Eva Schiffer I’ve been thinking of an online version of Net-Map for a while now and my first web-based Net-Map training seminar encouraged me to go further in this direction. During the training I basically directed people I couldn’t see to draw paper maps in their own offices on the Philippines or in India, which is not realizing the full participatory potential of the method. Now the Knowledge Management for Development Community (KM4Dev) asked me whether we could use Net-Map at their annual meeting to get a better understanding of the links within and beyond this community. So today I played around with VisuaLyzer, my favorite Social Network Analysis and Visualization Program, to see whether it would be possible to actually draw the network on screen while people are contributing online. Like this: Like Loading... Filed under: exploring new ideas, technical details, upcoming events
Gephi - The Open Graph Viz Platform NWB Community Wiki : K-Core Decomposition browse << | Visualize Data Algorithms | >> LaNet -vi Description We use the k-core decomposition to visualize large scale complex networks in two dimensions. Links Source Code: Binaries: Update Site: Home Page: Pros & Cons Pros: Low complexity Applications Visualization of large networks Implementation Details Implemented in ocaml Usage Hints Acknowledgements The plug-in was developed and integrated by Mariano Gastón Beiró and Dr José Ignacio Alvarez-Hamelin at University of Buenos Aires - School of Engeneering ( ) References [1] R. networks", Rev. [2] L. "Classes of small world networks", Proc. [3] S.N. biological nets to the Internet and WWW", Oxford University Press, 2003. [4] R. Internet: A statistical physics approach", Cambridge University Press, 2004. [5] J. [6] V.Batagelj and M.
mikeaddison93/Gamepy Introduction to Social Network Methods: Chapter 4: Visualizing with NetDraw Introduction to social network methods 4. Working with NetDraw to visualize graphs This page is part of an on-line text by Robert A. Hanneman (Department of Sociology, University of California, Riverside) and Mark Riddle (Department of Sociology, University of Northern Colorado). Contents of this chapter: Introduction: A picture is worth... As we saw in chapter 3, a graph representing the information about the relations among nodes can be an very efficient way of describing a social structure. A good drawing can also help us to better understand how a particular "ego" (node) is "embedded" (connected to) its "neighborhood" (the actors that are connected to ego, and their connections to one another) and to the larger graph (is "ego" an "isolate" a "pendant"?). There is no single "right way" to represent network data with graphs. table of contents Node attributes Differences of kind: We often have information available about some attributes of each the actors in our network. Figure 4.1.
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Three Major Perspectives in Sociology Sociologists analyze social phenomena at different levels and from different perspectives. From concrete interpretations to sweeping generalizations of society and social behavior, sociologists study everything from specific events (the micro level of analysis of small social patterns) to the “big picture” (the macro level of analysis of large social patterns). The pioneering European sociologists, however, also offered a broad conceptualization of the fundamentals of society and its workings. Their views form the basis for today's theoretical perspectives, or paradigms, which provide sociologists with an orienting framework—a philosophical position—for asking certain kinds of questions about society and its people. Sociologists today employ three primary theoretical perspectives: the symbolic interactionist perspective, the functionalist perspective, and the conflict perspective.
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