MASNA Online Workshop 'How to analyze a network of your friends with social network analysis' on May 26

MASNA, the online master's programme ‘Applied Statistics with Network Analysis’, has held the workshop ‘How to analyze a network of your friends with social network analysis’.

During the session our presenter Lika Kapustina, the research assistant of ANR-Lab, explained how networks reflect our reality, explained a few basic concepts and showed how to build a network of friends based on the Russian social network VKontakte.

The entire workshop was aimed to provide the attendees with the ideas:

• about the process of building network data;
• on the use of digital methods for the purposes of social sciences;
• network analysis (a little about Python and the VK API);
• about metrics (degree, centrality) and the software tool Gephi Lite.

In addition, Ivan Klimov, Academic Supervisor of MASNA, and Irina Pavlova, Deputy Head of ANR-Lab, talked about the study plan of MASNA master's programme, admission and education process, and answered questions from applicants.

The link to the session’s notebook on GitHub is available here.

 

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The recording of the session is available here: