No | Pronoun | Answer | Variable/Scale | Example | What Operations? |
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3 | How, What Kind, What Sort | A Manner / Method, Type or Attribute from a list, with list items in some " order" ( e.g. good, better, improved, best..) | Qualitative/Ordinal | Socioeconomic status (Low income, Middle income, High income),Education level (HighSchool, BS, MS, PhD),Satisfaction rating(Very much Dislike, Dislike, Neutral, Like, Very Much Like) | Median,Percentile |
Networks
Can you introduce me to Phoebe?
What graphs will we see today?
Variable #1 | Variable #2 | Chart Names | Chart Shape |
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Qual | Quant (optional) | Network Chart |
What kind of Data Variables will we choose?
Inspiration
How do these Chart(s) Work?
Plotting a Network Chart
Dataset: The Game of Thrones
Here is a dataset from Jeremy Singer-Vine’s blog, Data Is Plural. This is a list of all books banned in schools across the US.
Download this data to your machine and use it in Orange.
Examine the Data
Figure 1 states that we have 1586 rows, 7 columns. So 1586 banned books are on this list! 🙀 🙀 🙀
The Figure 2 already has a thumbnail-like bar chart. We will still make a “proper” one with the appropriate widget.
Data Dictionary
Research Questions
Q1.
Q2.
What is the Story Here?
- And what, Californians are too busy making money to care about book-banning!!! The state does not even show up in the chart! 😂
Your Turn
- AiRbnb Price Data on the French Riviera:
- Apartment price vs ground living area:
- Fertility: This rather large and interesting Fertility related dataset from https://vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets/csv/AER/Fertility.csv
Wait, But Why?
- Networks show up in a very diverse set of domains: society, epidemiology, trade, logistics, transportation, innovation, ecology, geopolitics, information technology, cyber***…So it’s worthwhile to have a good grounding in networks.
- In SMI, we wave hands and fatuously say “Everything’s connected”! Well, this module will enable you to go beyond tawk and do a show instead.
- Complex relationships between entities are best represented with a graph.
- There are also many graph layouts possible for the same dataset. Go see the pictures at David Schoch’s website. This can enable a very different view and insight about these relationships.
References
Network Repository. An Interactive Scientific Network Data Repository: the first scientific network data repository with interactive visual analytics. https://networkrepository.com > A great source of network data from various domains!
https://bookdown.org/markhoff/social_network_analysis/
EpiModel: Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Disease Dynamics. https://www.epimodel.org
Hua Wang, & Wellman, B. (2010). Social Connectivity in America: Changes in Adult Friendship Network Size From 2002 to 2007. American Behavioral Scientist, 53(8), 1148–1169.
Konrad M. Lawson, Toilers and Gangsters:Simple Network Visualization with R for Historians