Networks in History
The Origins of Network Theory
Koenigsberg (Kaliningrad) and Drinking Games
Relationships, Not Locations
Mathematically Abstracted
Types of Graphs
Directed vrs. Undirected Edges
Weighted vrs. Unweighted Edges
Quantifying Relationships
Visually Displaying Information: Placement, Color, and Size
Keep it Simple - The Dangers of Many Network Graphs
An Example
An Example: Sexual Politics of a Public High School
Theory
Social Network Analysis (SNA) Milestones
- 1973, Mark Granovetter, The Strength of Weak Ties
- 1988, Hanneman, Computer Assisted Theory Building: Modeling Dynamic Social Systems
- 1993, Linton Freeman releases UCINET
- 1996, Watz & Strogatz, Collective Dynamics of Small World Networks
- 2015, Stefan Sinclair releases Gephi
Major Metrics<
- Degree
- Closeness Centrality
- Betweeness Centrality
- Clustering
- Fragmentation
- Power
Historical Applications of Network Analysis
The Topography of the Volga River Valley
The Topology of the Volga River Valley
The Monte, A Hill of Broken Pottery
Digging through the Centuries
Unraveling Networks of Exchange
The Major Source: Baetica (Southern Spain)
The Topography of the Towns Mentioned in the Monte
The Topology of the Towns Mentioned in the Monte
Literary Approaches - Mapping the Networks Discourse Analysis
Using Network Analysis - What is a Network Really?
The Growth of Network Analysis
Some Online Applications
- [Early American Foreign Service Database](http://www.eafsd.org/)
- [Orbis Geospation Network Model of the Roman World](http://orbis.stanford.edu/) Centrality
Links
Academic Readings
- Robert Hanneman and Mark Riddle - Introduction to Social Network Methods
- Tom Brughmans - Thinking Through Networks: A Review of Formal Network Methods in Archaeology
- Eduard A. Arriaga, Fernando Sancho Caparrini, and Juan Luis Suárez - Modeling Afro-Latin American Artistic Representations in Topic Maps: Cuba’s Prominence in Latin American Discourse
Some Tools
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- Overall
- The Historian's Macroscope - Network Analysis
- The Historian's Macroscope - Network Analysis Fundamentals
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- Gephi
- Luca Hammer - Analyzing Twitter Networks with Gephi 0.9.1
- Shawn Graham - Getting Historical Network Data into Gephi
- Shawn Graham - Converting 2 Mode Networks with Multimodal Plugin for Gephi
- David M. Berry, Erik Borra, Anne Helmond, Jean-Christophe Plantin, and Jill Walker Rettberg - The Data Sprint Approach: Exploring the field of Digital Humanities through Amazon’s Application Programming Interface
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- Palladio
- Miriam Posner - Getting Started with Palladio
- Marten During (via The Programming Historian) - From Hermeneutics to Data to Networks: Data Extraction and Network Visualization of Historical Sources
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- Cytoscape
- Miriam Posner - Visualize a Network of Film Casts and Crews
- Miriam Posner - Customize Your Network Visualization
- Miriam Posner - New Tutorials on Network Analysis with Cytoscape