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Learn to find insights into networks, social networks, and social media networks with just a few clicks.
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Date and time
January 15, 2024 · 5am – January 19, 2024 · 9am PST
Location
Online
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About this event
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The Social Media Research Foundation’s Winter School is an intensive 5-day online event around social media research and social network analysis using NodeXL.
Join us for expert talks, tutorials and one-on-one sessions with our instructors from Team NodeXL. Learn tips and tricks to collect, analyze, visualize, report and present insights into social media networks with no previous knowledge required.
Gain network knowledge to boost your research project with network data and expert knowledge. Many previous students have gone on to publish studies in international peer-reviewed journal articles and conferences around the world.
If you can make a pie chart, you can now make a network chart!
The event ticket includes access to all sessions (video-recorded), a 60-day NodeXL Pro user license and two one-on-one meetings with our instructors. All sessions will be delivered online via Zoom. Attendees will receive a meeting link 7-days before the workshop. On completion, delegates will be emailed a certificate of attendance (PDF) and the skills that have been gained.
Event Schedule
Starting time each day is at 2 pm GMT. The sessions end around 6:30 pm GMT. A detailed time table with all sessions will be provided to attendees before the event:
Pre-Event Task: View a short onboarding video (optional for those at an advanced level)
Day 1: January -15-2024: Introduction Day – Introduction to social media research, networks and NodeXL
Day 2: January-16-2024: X (Twitter) Day – Analyze, visualize and understand X (Twitter) networks
Day 3: January-17-2024: Tutorial Day – More NodeXL, plus Gephi
Day 4: January -18-2024: Support Day – 1-on-1 sessions and practical help
Day 5: January -19-2024: Presentation Day – Learn how to write a paper / project presentations / discussion
Course Syllabus
This event will introduce the importance of social media research & provide an overview of NodeXL Pro for the analysis of social media data. NodeXL provides easy access to social media network data streams, advanced network metrics, text and sentiment analysis, and powerful report generation with just a few clicks.
Gain insights into collections of annotated connections. Discover the key people leading each topic discussed in social media. Identify groups, factions, divisions and market segments in a discussion stream. Learn to “Think Link” and gain insights into collections of connections found in social media and beyond!
The need to gain insights into social media has grown in importance with the increasing popularity of social networking websites in particular (e.g. X (Twitter), YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram etc.) and social computing in general. As people increasingly participate in online communities for social, commercial, and civic interaction, new methods are needed to study these phenomena.
The event will be led by Dr. Marc Smith from the Social Media Research Foundation with guest speakers who will demonstrate network methods for research insights. Members of Team NodeXL will also provide a variety of tutorials on how to use NodeXL.
Learning Outcomes
– Learn the required theories and concepts of networks and social networks
– Learn how to prepare your data for network analysis
– Learn the basics of the NodeXL Pro application
– Learn how to do automated analysis in NodeXL Pro
– Learn to identify key people and groups on social networks
– Learn how to run content analysis to create a vector of words, hashtags and URLs for each users, group, and population
– To understand how to interpret the network metrics and shapes
Who will benefit from this course?
This event will benefit a wide range of people including, but not limited to:
* Academics/ Researchers
* Masters and PhD students
* Research Support Staff and Managers
* Communications and Marketing Professionals
* Entrepreneurs
Scholarship competition
We provide a scholarship competition for students and the link to apply is here: https://forms.gle/3qhczhDC1kBKbHGL7
Previous Attendee Feedback
“The Summer School provides relevant practical lessons for starting your social media data analysis journey and the instructors are keen on adapting on your specific interests and research needs”
“An extremely dedicated team of experts who are determined to share and teach you how to do SNA!”
“If you love social media and understand its perks and value, the course allow you to star the path to become an expert of social media analysis”
About the organizer
Organized by Social Media Research Foundation
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We are Social Media Researchers who want to create open tools, generate and host open data, and support open scholarship related to social media.
Social media is the term for all the ways people connect to people through computation. Mobile devices, social networks, micro-blogging and location sharing are just a few of the ways people engage in computer-mediated collective action.
Mapping, measuring and understanding the landscape of social media is our mission. We support tool projects that enable the collection, analysis and visualization of social media data. We host data sets that are relevant to social media research. And we will support graduate students studying and building research related to social media.
Today, our primary project is NodeXL, the free and open network overview discovery and exploration add-in for Excel 2007 (and 2010) that extends the familiar spreadsheet so that it can collect, analyze and visualize complex social networks.
We plan to take on additional projects that improve the variety and quality of data available to the NodeXL social network analysis platform (among others that consume the open GraphML format).
The Social Media Research Foundation is a group of researchers and practitioners working to create open tools, generate and host open data, and support open scholarship related to social media.
Natasa Milic-Frayling from Microsoft Research, Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues from the University of Porto, Ben Shneiderman, Derek Hansen, Udayan Khurana, Cody Dunne and others at the University of Maryland, Marc Smith at Connected Action Consulting, Jure Leskovec at Stanford University, Vladimir Barash and Scott Golder at Cornell, Bernie Hogan at Oxford University, Robert Ackland at the Australian National University, and Libby Hemphill at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
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