Week 11 - Communities in Networks
Dad Joke
The guy who stole my diary died yesterday.
My thoughts are with his family.
Housekeeping
- Make an appointment for Self Assessment Reflection review
- Submit Exam Questions ASAP
- What to do on Thursday - R Lab or activity?
- No class on Tuesday, November 5th
- Conversation on Discord instead
- Post 1 question and 1 thing you’ve learned
- Respond to 2 other posts
Plan for today
- Groups in networks review
- Discussion questions
- R
Core and Periphery Review
- Why do groups often have a core and a periphery?
- Given some of the other theories we’ve talked about, how would you expect the periphery to differ from the core?
- What role does the periphery have in protests (Barberá et al. reading)?
- What is one way to identify who is in the core or periphery?
Discussion Questions
- Do k-plexes really happen? Are you really connected to everyone but one person?
- Clustering coefficient
- Homophily vs. cliques
- Networks vs. communities
- Minimum size of core