Course Information
| Session |
|---|
| Credits | 1.5 CEUs or 15 PDHs |
|---|---|
| Registration dates | We accept registrations through the first week of classes, unless enrollment is full, and unless the class was canceled before it started due to low enrollment. |
Introduction to Data Visualization for Social Network Analysis
$200.00
Dates: July 3 - October 30Credits: 1.5 CEUs or 15 PDHs
This course introduces theories, concept and methods of Social Network Analysis (SNA). Social Network Analysis has become a widely applied method in research investigating interactions among social agents and information. In this course students will learn how to collect data, analyze it and visualize it using Gephi, a free open tool. By the end of the course, students will be able to:Understand SNA concepts; Collect and Prepare data for SNA; and generate SNA graph.
Course Description
This course introduces theories, concept and methods of Social Network Analysis (SNA). Social Network Analysis has become a widely applied method in research investigating interactions among social agents and information. In this course students will learn how to collect data, analyze it and visualize it using Gephi, a free open tool.
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Understand SNA concepts
- Collect and Prepare data for SNA
- Generate SNA graph
Dalal Rahme
Dalal Rahme has over 11 years of experience in academic libraries. She received her M.S in Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 2014 with a specialization in the Data Curation and Socio-Technical Data Analytics.
She currently holds the position of data services librarian at the American University of Beirut (AUB), where she assists in the curation of data for different projects, delivers training and workshops related to data literacy, data management, data curation and data visualization, and helps in administering the institutional repository at AUB. She is also an instructor at the Graduate School of Information Science at the Lebanese Public University where she teaches digital preservation and data curation since 2015. She served on several committees at IFLA (FAIFE 2018-2019), ALA (Students Chapter 2013-2014) and the Lebanese Library Association (board member 2017-2019).
How to Register
To enroll yourself or other participants in a class, use the “Register” button that follows the description of each course. If the “Register” button does not show up, try loading the page in a different web browser. Contact us if you have technical difficulties using our shopping cart system or would like to pay for an enrollment using another method. On the payment page in the shopping cart system, there is a place to add notes, such as the names and email addresses of participants you wish to enroll. We will contact you to request this information in response to your processed payment if you do not include it in the “notes” field. Prior to the start of the workshop, we will send participants their login instructions.Payment Info
Our shopping cart system allows you to pay with a credit card or with PayPal.Alternatively, if it is an institutional payment, we can arrange to invoice you. Contact us by email, and we can make arrangements to suit your institution's business processes.
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.