This is fantastic! I am doing my PhD in ancient history and am looking to incorporate network analysis in my research. Thank you so much for this presentation!
Dear Heather, thank you for your comment and your interest. You'll find a few more recent videos on my channel and website, and don't miss historicalnetworkresearch.org/ and its bibliography if you want to go further!
I came across Your introduction into Gephi, years ago, but now You offer what I was actually looking for, back then. Since under-graduate lectures rarely include introductions into methods of social science and digital humanities, I thank You for making this video ! I've seen an example of historical research, once - but the catch was that it depended on an _already available dataset_ of individuals - which could be a factor of confirmation bias if the origin of the dataset isn't completely transparent. Building up datasets could be the actual challenge - because before looking at the complete visualization of a social network, one doesn't know where to look for relevant connections...
Many thanks for your message. Yes, when you use an already available dataset, you (unfortunately) avoid a whole part of the reflection and source criticism. By the way, I made another video that develops a little more the historical aspect of the case study presented here, you will find it here: ruclips.net/video/CTXrVchm05M/видео.html
@@MartinGrandjean Thanks for Your friendly reply Martin - and the link ! I haven't watched that most recent video yet. I think, it would be helpful for students to be walked through several _simple_ examples, showcasing the _relevance_ of such visualization to realize it's potential (in addition to the 'embedded' example on the League of Nation). E.g. I'm interested in _informal_ social networks that leave little papertrail in archives (officials love taking historical material to their homes or to gift it to _private_ archives), but still have significant cultural impact (e.g. why public discourse is _exclusively_ 'framed' along 'modernization theory' when in academia 'Whig historiography' has been taught as just one _narrative_ among others - since decades...). Never comprehending 'who is who' undermines critical judgement, therefore _popularizing_ techniques that create that _sensitivity_ should be 'nudged' into the 'curriculum' - at least so do I think.
I am bioinformatician. Your method on historical network analysis will help me immensely in my work. I'm so glad I stumbled upon your videos! Your content is outstanding and the commentary really helps to explain things clearly. Keep up the great work! Thank you! :) Are there any tutorials for creating the graphs in your video?
Hello, and many thanks for your kind comment! Glad that it helps! I do have a (rather old but still usable) Gephi tutorial here: www.martingrandjean.ch/gephi-introduction/ and the data used in this video as a case study can be found here if you want to play with it: github.com/grandjeanmartin/intellectual-cooperation
First of all this is terrific and I'm really enamored by the level of depth that you go into to cover such a huge amount of subject matter in a short period of time. Second, I'm wondering what recommendations you would have for a person trying to create a visualization like what you've got at @26:32 for a map of the organizational ecosystem of a city?
Thank you for your comment! I made a newer version of this introduction in an 1-hour video series here: ruclips.net/video/lnLW6ITFY3M/видео.html I used Gephi and the 3 dimensional layout plugin for the figure you're referring to. I would not necessarily recommend to produce such 3D visualisation, at least not as a first step into your process (you'll find the data here if you want to reproduce it and understand how it should be encoded for Gephi: github.com/grandjeanmartin/intellectual-cooperation). 3D is often misleading, you need to be very clear about what you put in the different layers before.
@@MartinGrandjean Thank you professor! Do you know of any more 'amateur friendly' ways to model something like that? I am trying to explain some facets of my local arts-nonprofit ecosystem to city officials and it would be helpful to create a digital visualization of the field of actors and their relationships. I've been thinking about doing it in Miro but feel like it would too messy to be of any use.
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This is fantastic! I am doing my PhD in ancient history and am looking to incorporate network analysis in my research. Thank you so much for this presentation!
Dear Heather, thank you for your comment and your interest. You'll find a few more recent videos on my channel and website, and don't miss historicalnetworkresearch.org/ and its bibliography if you want to go further!
I came across Your introduction into Gephi, years ago, but now You offer what I was actually looking for, back then.
Since under-graduate lectures rarely include introductions into methods of social science and digital humanities, I thank You for making this video !
I've seen an example of historical research, once - but the catch was that it depended on an _already available dataset_ of individuals - which could be a factor of confirmation bias if the origin of the dataset isn't completely transparent.
Building up datasets could be the actual challenge - because before looking at the complete visualization of a social network, one doesn't know where to look for relevant connections...
Many thanks for your message. Yes, when you use an already available dataset, you (unfortunately) avoid a whole part of the reflection and source criticism.
By the way, I made another video that develops a little more the historical aspect of the case study presented here, you will find it here: ruclips.net/video/CTXrVchm05M/видео.html
@@MartinGrandjean
Thanks for Your friendly reply Martin - and the link !
I haven't watched that most recent video yet.
I think, it would be helpful for students to be walked through several _simple_ examples, showcasing the _relevance_ of such visualization to realize it's potential (in addition to the 'embedded' example on the League of Nation).
E.g. I'm interested in _informal_ social networks that leave little papertrail in archives (officials love taking historical material to their homes or to gift it to _private_ archives), but still have significant cultural impact (e.g. why public discourse is _exclusively_ 'framed' along 'modernization theory' when in academia 'Whig historiography' has been taught as just one _narrative_ among others - since decades...).
Never comprehending 'who is who' undermines critical judgement, therefore _popularizing_ techniques that create that _sensitivity_ should be 'nudged' into the 'curriculum' - at least so do I think.
I am bioinformatician. Your method on historical network analysis will help me immensely in my work. I'm so glad I stumbled upon your videos! Your content is outstanding and the commentary really helps to explain things clearly. Keep up the great work! Thank you! :)
Are there any tutorials for creating the graphs in your video?
Hello, and many thanks for your kind comment! Glad that it helps! I do have a (rather old but still usable) Gephi tutorial here: www.martingrandjean.ch/gephi-introduction/ and the data used in this video as a case study can be found here if you want to play with it: github.com/grandjeanmartin/intellectual-cooperation
@@MartinGrandjean thank you!
First of all this is terrific and I'm really enamored by the level of depth that you go into to cover such a huge amount of subject matter in a short period of time.
Second, I'm wondering what recommendations you would have for a person trying to create a visualization like what you've got at @26:32 for a map of the organizational ecosystem of a city?
Thank you for your comment! I made a newer version of this introduction in an 1-hour video series here: ruclips.net/video/lnLW6ITFY3M/видео.html
I used Gephi and the 3 dimensional layout plugin for the figure you're referring to. I would not necessarily recommend to produce such 3D visualisation, at least not as a first step into your process (you'll find the data here if you want to reproduce it and understand how it should be encoded for Gephi: github.com/grandjeanmartin/intellectual-cooperation). 3D is often misleading, you need to be very clear about what you put in the different layers before.
@@MartinGrandjean Thank you professor! Do you know of any more 'amateur friendly' ways to model something like that? I am trying to explain some facets of my local arts-nonprofit ecosystem to city officials and it would be helpful to create a digital visualization of the field of actors and their relationships. I've been thinking about doing it in Miro but feel like it would too messy to be of any use.
Thank you!
Thanks G