For the last decade or so, I have received my regular dose of new academic content from journal RSS feeds. In recent years, social media*, listservs, and thoughtful friend e-mails have helped me discover many great articles. Also recently (much to my dismay!) some publishers** have decided to discontinue their RSS. [...]
This is a comprehensive tutorial on network visualization with R. It covers data input and formats, visualization basics, parameters and layouts for one-mode and bipartite graphs; dealing with multiplex links, interactive and animated visualization for longitudinal networks; and visualizing networks on geographic maps. To follow the tutorial, download the code and [...]
Since I started posting network tutorials on this site, people will occasionally write to ask me about the included example datasets. I also get e-mails from people asking where they might find network data to use for a project or in teaching. Seems like a good idea to post a quick [...]
More details to follow, but for now: workshop materials from Sunbelt 2016. Basic and Advanced Network Visualization with Gephi Sunbelt 2016 workshop materials Network visualization with Gephi: workshop handout (PDF) Network visualization with Gephi: example data files (ZIP) Basic and Advanced Network Visualization with R Sunbelt 2016 workshop materials [...]
Get the tutorial PDF and code, or download on GithHub. A more recent tutorial covering network basics with R and igraph is available here. If you find the materials useful, please cite them in your work – this helps me make the case that open publishing of digital materials like this [...]
In the fall of 2012, I got to design & lead the weekly labs for a network seminar at USC. I also worked on the methods portion of the syllabus for the class. COMM 645: Communication Networks is a PhD-level course taught by Peter Monge. The labs cover a range of [...]
Once a year, the Annenberg Networks Network (ANN) at USC and the Science of Networks in Communities Laboratory (SONIC) at Northwestern University convene an international seminar on network science. The conference organizers include Manuel Castells, Noshir Contractor, Janet Fulk, and Peter Monge. The seminar that took place at USC this April [...]