Dr Eoin Whelan, NUI Galway, presented this seminar entitled Introduction to UCINET as part of the Network Data Analytics workshop hosted by the Social Sciences Compuing Hub at the Whitaker Institute, NUI Galway on 26th February 2014

1. eoin.whelan@nuigalway.ie
Introduction to UCINET

3. SNA Packages
— http://www.gmw.rug.nl/~huisman/sna/software.html

4. Overview
— Lifecycle of an SNA study using UCINET
https://sites.google.com/site/ucinetsoftware/home
— Data gathering
— Data management
— Visualisation
— Hypothesis testing
— Other network measures

5. Why SNA?
— Social network theory
— Performance - Pentland, Burt
— Diffusion – simple vs complex, Christakis & Fowler
— Power – Padegtt’s study of Renaissance Florence families

6. Improvisational
Capabilities
Absorptive
Capacity
Centrality in the problem
solving advice network
Social diversity in the
problem solving advice
network
H1
H2
H3
H4 H5

7. Collecting data

8. Collecting data
80% plus response rate – robust network

9. UCINET

10. Current Research - Twitter & Innovation
Employee A Employee B

11. — https://apps.facebook.com/namegenweb
— http://inmaps.linkedinlabs.com/