network

Introduction I’ve been doing some work lately on social networks that exist between organisations or institutions. This is nice as it builds on some of my dissertation work, and I generally find it quite interesting. Networks that form between organisations are often quite powerful, in that they can illustrate where strong areas of like-minded work exist or where new connections might be useful in strengthing one organisation’s influence. Why like me?

Why create a new dataset? I’d like to do a series of posts looking at social network analysis using primary data (i.e. data collected by yourself.). There are a lot of different examples of when you might want to use a survey to collect data for use in analysing social networks. But that’s for another time. The purpose of this post is to create a new dataset that can be used in practising social network analysis in future posts.