ECPR 2015 course: Introduction to network analysis using Pajek

ECPR 2015 course: Introduction to network analysis using Pajek

Ljubljana, Slovenia, 23 July - 8 August 2015
Course: Introduction to network analysis using Pajek

Teacher: Vladimir Batagelj

ECPR Summer School, Moodle SD205: Introduction to network analysis using Pajek

Larger pictures: 1, 2, 3, TaBar

Course materials

Pajek: program, datasets

Pajek
Pajek resources: support programs, datasets, …

Special datasets

Krebs' Internet Industries (paj)
Snyder and Kick World Trade (paj)
Bouchard's genealogy (GED); frag16.paj
class.net
Collection 2015
US counties
Signed networks (ZIP)
Class.net for blockmodeling
NBER US patents: 1975-1999; 1976-2006; Pajek 1975-1999
NBER world trade, 1962-2000; NBER world trade 1999
Football 2002 (by Lothar Krempel) (net)
Football market 1998 and 2002
World Cup

Additional readings

Books

V. Batagelj, P. Doreian, A. Ferligoj, N. Kejžar: Understanding Large Temporal Networks and Spatial Networks: Exploration, Pattern Searching, Visualization and Network Evolution. Wiley Series in Computational and Quantitative Social Science. Wiley, October 2014.
W. de Nooy, A. Mrvar, V. Batagelj: Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek. Second expanded edition, CUP, 2012 Amazon. ESNA page.
S. Wasserman, K. Faust: Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications. CUP, 1994. Amazon.
P.J. Carrington, J. Scott, S. Wasserman (Eds.): Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis. CUP, 2005. Amazon.
J. P Scott: Social Network Analysis: A Handbook. SAGE Publications, 2000. Amazon.
A. Degenne, M. Forsé: Introducing Social Networks. SAGE Publications, 1999. Amazon.
P. Doreian, V. Batagelj, A. Ferligoj: Generalized Blockmodeling, CUP, 2004. Amazon.
D. Easley, J. Kleinberg: Networks, Crowds, and Markets. CUP, 2010. Amazon, WWW page
M.O. Jackson: Social and Economic Networks. PUP, 2010. Amazon.
Selected books on SNA

Chapters

V. Batagelj: Social Network Analysis, Large-scale
V. Batagelj: Visualization of Large Networks
W. deNooy: Social Network Analysis, Graph Theoretical Approaches to

All published in: Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science. (Meyers, Robert A., Ed.), Springer, Heidelberg 2009.

Papers

Granovetter, Mark 1973: The Strength of Weak Ties. American Journal of Sociology 78: 1360-80.
Freeman Linton C. 1979: Centrality in Social Networks: A Conceptual Clarification. Social Networks 1: 211-213.
Analysis of bibliographic networks; On bibliographic networks/ArXiv.
Centrality in social networks
J. Moody: Race, School Integration, and Friendship Segregation in America, AJS Vol 107, 3(2001), 679–716 ; slides
Science: Complex Systems and Networks, 24 July 2009, Vol 325, Issue 5939, Pages 357-504.
V. Batagelj, A. Mrvar: Analysis of Kinship Relations with Pajek, Social Science Computer Review, Vol. 26, No. 2, 224-246 (2008); Preprint (DOC).
N. Kejžar, S. Korenjak-Černe, V. Batagelj: Network Analysis of Works on Clustering and Classification from Web of Science, to be published in Proceedings of IFCS'09.
Batagelj, V., Vavpetič, A.: Faster Pathfinder algorithm for sparse networks. Sunbelt XXX, Riva del Garda, Italy, June 29 - July 4, 2010. Notes; PathFindeR.zip
Bonachich's centrality index. paper, R
An application of blockmodeling
Selected papers on egocentric networks
Pajek in French

Labs

How to? (PDF)
Example networks: data (ZIP)
Pajek datasets
SVGanim - animation of temporal networks in SVG
first network

X3D viewer: Instantreality
Vector graphics editor: Inkscape
Unicode text editor: Babelpad
Running Pajek from R

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