Readings

• 2-3 main points
• 1 thing you didn't understand
• 1 question for class

1. Networks Analysis
2. Demystifying Networks, Part 1
3. Demystifying Networks, Part 2
4. Network Theory, Plot Analysis

Networks Analysis

• Citation analysis
• "only as useful as its data"
• Comparing results of network analysis with your own hypotheses
• "using graphs to become smitten with one's own data"

Demystifying Networks

• Be careful with networks!
• Using networks means that your connections matter (a lot).
• You will have to simplify your humanistic data to fit it into a network.
• Edges are a layer of interpretation

Network Theory, Plot Analysis

• Networks by hand
• Network theory vs. networks
• Reflection on analysis

methodology review

• Kindred Britain
• Belfast Group Poetry
• Mapping the Republic of Letters
• Six Degrees of Francis Bacon
• Preliminaries Project
• Prosop (in development)
• Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC)
• Linked Jazz
• Signs @ 40 Cocitation Network

methodology review

• who is involved?
• what are they doing?
• how are they doing it?
• standards/design

Unit 2 data sets

1. Shenandoah index
2. Tom Carter's personal library
3. Stonewall Jackson Cemetery database
4. President Wilson's coeducation correspondence