It's about objects

and relationships.

“The network is not a social network or geographic network or logical network but rather a primitive object capable of and useful for the modeling and analysis of relationships between a wide variety of objects.”

- Elijah Meeks

Relationships like…

• intensity
• occurrences
• distance
• strength/weakness
• grouping
• multiple types
• co-location

What do we use to do this?

So what can we look at?

moviegalaxies.com

Analyzing TV Series and their Narrative Complexity - Digital Humanities Student Project - Radu, Oesch and Djurica

Coasta, Len, "Inside Bloomberg's Twitter A-List (Well, At Least a Fraction of it),"Enterprising Investor, CFA Institute

Kim, Hyunjung and Barnett, George A., "Social Network Analysis Using Author Co-Citation Data" (2008). *AMCIS 2008 Proceedings.* Paper 172.

Watson, A., "The World According to iTunes: Mapping Urban Networks of Music Production," "Global Networks, 12 (4), (2012), 446-466.

Some SNA tools:

• NodeXL (guide)

• Palladio

• ORA

• UCINET

• Gephi

So what are the benefits/drawbacks?

Some Gephi features:

• Real-time visualization
• Layout
• Metrics
• Dynamic Network Analysis
• Cartography
• Clustering and Hierarchical Graphs

Clustering

Layout

Large Networks