| Abstract:
The application of social network analysis requires data, data analysis, and sociograms (maps of the network) in order to establish findings and results. How do the three go together, and how do you read a sociogram and connect the analysis to it? This is the main question that the author gets from newcomers to SNA. This expert lecture will illustrate how using sociograms alone, or using the results of data analysis alone are not sufficient to establish findings and results in understanding networks. The lecture will include both a PowerPoint presentation and handouts and will begin with definitions and illustrations of social network analysis data, sociograms, data analysis, and examples of how findings and results are intertwined together with several examples of analysis and sociograms. The expert lecture is built on a review of the research on how the sociogram and the data analysis have historically been used together.
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