Week 2 - Social Network Analysis : In this module, you will be able to discuss the structure of networks and be able to explain how a person can be the center of one. You will be able to discover the ...

Social network analysis formalizes this parlor game, using details about the network to interpret the role of each person or group. In a basic analysis, people are seen as “nodes” and the ...

Now here’s a contagion that might not be so bad to encounter. A new analysis of the running habits of about 1.1 million people reveals that exercise is indeed contagious — though its ...

This week will focus on more local measure of network structure, and particularly how these local patterns can aggregate to produce global structures. We also read several examples of empirical work ...

Empirical analysis of an evolving social network. Science, 311:88-90. Snijders, T. A. B. (2001). The statistical evaluation of social network dynamics. Sociological Methodology, 361-395. Moody, J.

Networks and network data describe an increasingly vast part of the modern world, through connections on social media, communications, financial transactions, and other ties. This course covers the ...

Social network analysis provides a clear picture of the ways that far-flung employees and divisions are working together, and can help companies identify key experts in the organization.

Had social-network analysis and location-based screening been performed for the historical cases rather than contact tracing alone, the present outbreak might have been prevented.

Combining the cutting-edge technology of whole genome sequencing of bacteria with social networking analysis, public health officials can get a more detailed picture of disease outbreaks that will ...