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Networks Demystified 9: Bimodal Networks

What do you think, is a year long enough to wait between Networks Demystified posts? I don’t think so, which is why it’s been a year and a month. Welcome back! A recent twitter back-and-forth culminated in a request for a discussion of “bimodal networks”, and my Networks Demystified series seemed like a perfect place for just […]

Networks Demystified 8: When Networks are Inappropriate

A few hundred years ago, I promised to talk about when not to use networks, or when networks are used improperly. With The Historian’s Macroscope in the works, I’ve decided to finally start answering that question, and this Networks Demystified is my first attempt at doing so. If you’re new here, this is part of […]

Networks Demystified 7: Doing Co-Citation Analyses

So this is awkward. I’ve published Networks Demystified 7: Doing Citation Analyses before Networks Demystified 6: Organizing Your Twitter Lists. What depraved lunatic would do such a thing? The kind of depraved lunatic that is teaching this very subject twice in the next two weeks: deal with it, you’ll get your twitterstructions soon, internet. In […]

Networks Demystified 5: Communities, PageRank, and Sampling Caveats

The fifth and sixth (coming soon…) installment of Networks Demystified will be a bit more applied than the previous bunch (1 network basics, 2 degree, 3 power laws, 4 co-citation analysis). Like many of my recent posts, this one is in response to a Twitter conversation: Some day, I need to go back through my lists of ppl I […]

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