A good couple of weeks for mathematical sociology, at least in terms of visibility. Scientific American has an interview with “mathematical sociologist” Duncan Watts about his new book. He also has a…
Category: Social Networks
A dynamic network visualization of the Egyptian revolution on Twitter
Now that the spectacular Egyptian revolution is sort of over (and as the even more dramatic Libyan uprising is raging), social scientist are scrambling to collect the data and to explain what…
Financial risk in banking networks
Today’s issue of Nature has an interesting article by Andrew G. Haldane and Robert M. May in which the “network lens” (as they call it) is applied to financial risks and instability…
Assorted links from the 2010 winter break
Some stuff that I encountered in the past weeks. Somehow, it’s all networks-related. In the latest issue of AJS, Andreas Wimmer and Kevin Lewis use the ‘Tastes, Times, Time’ Facebook data and…
More SNA in Stata: centpow and networks
Doing network analysis in Stata seems to become more and more popular. In October, we saw the release of centpow by Zachary Neal, which computes various centrality measures. Last week I learned…
Netplot 1.2 available
Updated Oct 14, 2010 I just uploaded a new version of to the SSC repository, from where it should be downloadable within a couple of days you can now install it by…
Observations on the Sunbelt 2010
I just returned from the Sunbelt conference in Riva del Garda, Italy, where I presented my paper with Andrea Knecht on alcohol use as a coordination game, and Michal presented our paper…