STA450/650 Theory and Methods for Social Network Analysis

I served as a teaching assistant, holding a 75-min lab and 2-hr office hour weekly. I prepared a detailed tutorial for my lab and knitted it using bookdown package, which covers the basic network analysis using R.

Outline

• Basic introduction on network objects.
  • R packages including igraph, statnet (including sna, network packages).
• Collect network data:
  • API requests using R packages (rtweet, Rfacebook, RedditExtractoR, imdbapi, omdbapi).
  • API requests from R directly (rjson, jsonlite)
  • Useful websites: (SNAP, Awesome Network Analysis)
• Fancy visualization (static and dynamic networks):
  • ggplot2 version: ggnet2, geomnet, ggnetwork
  • Interactive network visualization: ggplot2 + plotly, visNetwork
  • Dynamic network visualization: ggnetwork, ggplot2 + gganimate, ndtv
• Network analysis using package amen, statnet.