Difference between revisions of "MCSN Tuesday, 20-Sep-11"
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* Please bring in your laptops so we can work together. | * Please bring in your laptops so we can work together. | ||
| + | * Quiz. Will cover definitions from chapters 1 and 2 only through today's reading. | ||
| + | * Readings: by section, not page (section 2.4 means read all of it, i.e. 2.4.1, 2.4.2, etc.) | ||
* Moodle | * Moodle | ||
** issues? | ** issues? | ||
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= Pajek mechanics = | = Pajek mechanics = | ||
* Important to get everything working. What didn't work? | * Important to get everything working. What didn't work? | ||
| − | * | + | * Chapter 2: |
| − | * Individual help while others | + | ** World system (Immanuel Wallerstein): core, semiperiphery, periphery. Claim: relation between trade position and mode of production. Network data helps establish trade position using block modeling (3 positions). |
| − | = Further brainstorms? | + | ** Data: Contains inter-country trade in metal manufactures, in $1k USD units as a valued digraph. Also assigns world system positions from 1980 and c. 1994 using partitions, as well as providing a continent partition, and GDP data as a vector. |
| − | + | ** Partition | |
| − | * | + | ** Vector |
| + | * Individual help while others generate examples using techniques in chapter 2. | ||
| + | = Last week... = | ||
| + | * Further brainstorms? | ||
| + | * Examples of network graphs from last Thursday | ||
| + | * Assignment 1.7. Examples. What sorts of methodological or ethical issues arose? How do you wish you'd changed your question? | ||
Revision as of 10:17, 20 September 2011
Course mechanics
- Please bring in your laptops so we can work together.
- Quiz. Will cover definitions from chapters 1 and 2 only through today's reading.
- Readings: by section, not page (section 2.4 means read all of it, i.e. 2.4.1, 2.4.2, etc.)
- Moodle
- issues?
- grading for 9/13 done - please see me if you have questions. A couple of people perhaps had trouble using the Moodle...
- please upload all assignments to the Moodle, including examples prepared for class: "come to class prepared with a Pajek example drawn from the Web, and illustrating chapter content." That way I have everything on file.
Pajek mechanics
- Important to get everything working. What didn't work?
- Chapter 2:
- World system (Immanuel Wallerstein): core, semiperiphery, periphery. Claim: relation between trade position and mode of production. Network data helps establish trade position using block modeling (3 positions).
- Data: Contains inter-country trade in metal manufactures, in $1k USD units as a valued digraph. Also assigns world system positions from 1980 and c. 1994 using partitions, as well as providing a continent partition, and GDP data as a vector.
- Partition
- Vector
- Individual help while others generate examples using techniques in chapter 2.
Last week...
- Further brainstorms?
- Examples of network graphs from last Thursday
- Assignment 1.7. Examples. What sorts of methodological or ethical issues arose? How do you wish you'd changed your question?
