MCSN Tuesday, 15-Nov-11

General

• away on Thursday: class affiliation partition, and game (someone please take attendance)
• draft proposals - be adding, correcting...I will give you feedback.

Exercise 5.8

• Movies.paj contains
  • 2-mode network linking 62 producers (mode 1, rows) to 40 composers (mode 2, columns) based on co-production during 1964-76
  • partition indicating top composers
  • questions:
    • do top composers work for relatively few producers (repeatedly work with the same producers over and over again)?
    • do top composers all work for the same producers?
  • procedure
    • examine network, looking at top composers. Any patterns?
    • compare partitions: (1) degree, and (2) being a top composer. What do cross-tabs tell us?
    • now extract one-mode net of composers only
    • extract corresponding