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<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Natalie,<br><br></div>If you and your students hace access to MS Excel you can use the an add-in called NodeXL (<a href="http://nodexl.codeplex.com/">http://nodexl.codeplex.com/</a>) for collecting, analyzing, and visualizing networks.  Bernie Hogans Facebook generated data can easily be imported to NodeXL and it is really easy to use the built-in data collectors to get twitter, youtube, and flickr data.  You can see lots of examples at the NodeXL gallery (<a href="http://www.nodexlgraphgallery.org/Pages/Default.aspx">http://www.nodexlgraphgallery.org/Pages/Default.aspx</a>).  Also, Marc Smith, who is the head of the group working on NodeXL has office hours using Google+ where you could get some support.<br>
<br></div><div>Personally, as others have suggested, having students look at their own Facebook networks is really educational and illuminating.  I am also a fan of checking out current events using NodeXL and twitter.<br>
</div><div><br></div>Best,<br></div>Alan<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Natalie Sappleton <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:[log in to unmask]" target="_blank"><a href="/cgi-bin/wa?LOGON=A3%3Dind1306%26L%3DSOCNET%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D1609723%26B%3D--bcaec501638b1d7d8c04dffbdad0%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3Dwindows-1252" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a></a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are hosting students from developing nations this summer and I’ve been tasked with delivering an intro to social network analysis session. The entire session is just 2 hours long, students are unfamiliar with SNA and have limited quants
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<p class="MsoNormal">Does anybody have any materials they would be willing to share?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I would be very grateful!</p>
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