Week 2: Network representations

Content for the week of Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Tuesday

Assignment Due (on Monday):

• Homework 1
• Initial Reflection (on Brightspace)
• Reading Review (Due Monday at noon!)

Readings (before class):

• James M. Cook, What is a Social Network?
• James M. Cook, Individuals versus Networks
• (Optional/skim) Freeman, L. C. (2000). Visualizing social networks. Journal of social structure, 1(1), 4.

Lecture Video (before class):

• Network Data and Network Types Lecture [19:18]

• Slides

Concepts:

• Complex systems and networks
• Individual and collective behavior

Thursday

Class Schedule:

• Go through Parable of the Polygons by Nicky Case
• Start work on R Lab 1