MCSN Tuesday, 27-Sep-11

• Moodle mechanics: grading on a 40 pt scale
• 1.7 review:
  • two mode networks
  • separable clusters = partition!
  • your networks
• Quiz review
• Pajek mechanics
• Course as (in part) a collaborative investigation of web-based social networks with relevance to music
  • My example: http://bandtoband.com.

• • • (a) How does the site work? What's its purpose and how is it organized? Site includes albums, bands, and artist as vertices that link to one another, allowing the user to click on any vertex to see its neighbors.
    • (b) what sorts of musical data does the site contain? Albums, bands, artists, as well as album covers.
    • (c) what kinds of networks can you extract from this site? Create one or two Pajek networks, together with partitions, and vectors. band-to-band-data.txt -> band-to-band-data.net
    • (d) what sorts of interesting questions then arise? (It's often instructive to create two such networks, and then ask: how do they differ, and why?) How does genre, gender, instrument, nationality vary along a path in this "small world" network?
  • Presentations of your websites