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Dear Patrick,

Jim Moody (recently in AJS), David Krackhardt, Ulrik Brandes and  Lin
Freeman among others have written on this topic. See for example

Brandes, U. et al. (1999). "Explorations into the Visualization of Policy
Networks." Journal of Theoretical Politics 11(1): 75-106.
	
Brandes, U. et al. (1999). Centrality in Policy Network Drawings. 7th Intl.
Symp. Graph Drawing, Springer-Verlag.
	
Brandes, U. et al. (2001). "Exploratory Network Visualization: Simultaneous
Display of Actor Status and Connections." Journal of Social Structure 2(4):
http://www.library.cmu.edu:7850/JoSS/brandes/index.html.
	
Freeman, L. (2000). "Visualizing Social Networks." Journal of Social
Structure 1(1): 1-16.
	

Here you should find some good arguments. I think that most of the
publications by Ulrik can be found as a pdf on his website. If you want to
know about the benefits as well as the do's and donts of visualization in
general, I would recommend the work of Edward Tufte.

Yours,

Joerg


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Dear all,

 

I have been examining a network (over time) of high school kids on their
drug behaviors.

 

One of the reviewers has serious doubts on the usefulness of sociograms
included in my paper. S/he argues that the sociograms included did not add
any information other than the central position of a few kids and the
connectivity of the remaining kids to those central kids and that all the
information should be revealed by other statistics (such as those from
cross-tabs and univariate/bivariate analysis). 

 

I included several attributes of kids (their sex, grade, etc.) and the
strengths of connections in the sociograms but having difficulty responding
to his/her criticisms. 

 

My questions:

1) How can I respond to his/her criticisms?

2) Whar are some general purposes of sociograms and any references that I
can take a look at and/or cite.

 

Any suggestions or advice would be really appreciated.

 

Thanks a million in advance,

Pat

		
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