When you want to use logarithmic axes in Stata graphs, Stata doesn’t exactly make your life easy. Specifying the logarithmic scales is easy enough (via the xscale(log) and xscale(log) options, but making…
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Mathematical Sociology again at Orgtheory
At orgtheory.net, Fabio Rojas breaks a lance for more formal modeling in sociology. A message worth spreading!
Mathematical sociology has a long way to go…
… at least, according to xkcd :-).
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…
Is computer science the new economics?
This afternoon I attended a talk by Cornell computer scientist Jon Kleinberg at Stanford University, in the computer science department’s Distinguished Lectures Series. His research is fascinating, but the talk was also…
SNA with Stata page updated
I have revamped my to be an overview of available packages and resources to do network analysis in Stata, rather than the description of my own attempts in that field that it…
One for all
The events in Tunisia and Egypt remind me of Russell Hardin’s book One for all, in which he analyzes collective action as mainly a problem of coordination. When he discusses revolutions, Hardin…
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…