Bandwidth estimation in computer networks: measurement techniques & applications
Summer course “ The Measurement of Personal Networks” UAB 2011
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Giving Meaning to Social Networks: Methodology for Conducting and
Analyzing Interviews based on Personal Network Visualizations
José Luis Molina (UAB)
Summer course “The Measurement of Personal Networks”
UAB 2011
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In the beginning …
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The power of visualizations I find it convenient to talk of a social field of this
kind as a network. The image I have is of a set of points some of which are joined by lines. The points of the image are people, or sometimes groups and the lines indicate which people interact with each other. We can of course think of the whole of social life as generating a network of this kind. (Barnes, 1954)
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The power of visualizations The power of visualization lies in the fact
that it allows the conversion of quantitative information to qualitative and vice versa.
Thus it is possible to communicate the structural features of social networks to informants, to communicate between researchers with different qualitative/quantitative backgrounds and to explore new models about the social world.
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From our experience …
Research phase
Collections of personal network
visualizations
Meta-representations
of personal networks
Data-Collection Narratives -
Data-AnalysisVisual
typologiesNew
hypothesis / models
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What do we mean by “visualizing personal networks”? The visualization of personal networks is a
given combination of compositional and structural features shown through visual variables (position, size, color, shape, connections, labels).
Assigning visual variables to compositional or structural variables describing the personal networks, it is possible to interview the informant with different representations of her social world and get narratives about it.
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Visualizations during the data collection (i)
EgoNet Author
[Ego]Information about Ego. [Alter Prompt] Flexible name
generator. “Please, give us the names of
XX persons you know and who know you by sight or by name, with whom you have had some contact in the past two years, either face-to-face, by phone, mail or e-mail, and whom you could still contact them if you had to”.
[Alter] Information about alters nominated by ego.
[Alter Pair] Alter-alter relationship. “XX and XX knows each other?”
or “XX and XX would meet independently of you?”
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Visualizations during the data collection (ii)
EgoNet Client
Structural questions: Do you think that this
representation of your personal network is accurate?
Could you identify some groups of people?
Who are those alters with more centrality?
Why these alters are isolated?
Compositional and structural questions:
Tell us about those central alters living in Spain …
This group of Catalan women … who are they?
Your group of co-workers … all them are Amazigh?
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Getting narratives and reasons about change ... When two or more waves are available the
sequential combination of structural and compositional information in visual variables can add a temporal dimension: Changes in people (new people). Changes in structure (new groupings, new
isolates). Change in compositional variables (new values
of variables, as for instance, changes in the country of residence).
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The network of Norma in the first wave (2005)
Large white: Argentines in SpainSmall white: Argentines in ArgentinaLarge black: Spanish in Spain
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The network of Norma in the second wave (2007)
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The network of Norma in the second wave (new alters in red)
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Visualization during Data analysis Personal network typologies … Meta-representations of personal networks … Model developing …
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Personal network typologies …
Estructura Concentrada
Estructura Bipolar
Estructura Segmentada
Composición étnica + Homogénea
Composición étnica + Heterogénea
Ávila, Javier (2008). REDESVol.15,#5, http://revista-redes.rediris.es
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Metavisualizations for making comparisons …
" S o c ia l c on ta c ts inse n d in g c o u n tr y "
" N a tio n a ls "
" S o c ia l co n ta c ts fr o mth e se n d in g c o u n tr y in
th e h o st co u n try "
" S o c ia l co n ta c ts fr o mo th er se n d in g
co u n tr ie s"
Brandes & Lerner (2007)
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25 people interviewed twice …
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Meta-representations of personal networks If meta-representations of personal networks
are available, then the analyst can anticipate information about the interview and thus confront the narratives with the clustered graphs.
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Comparing communities …
Argentina (n= 25) República Dominicana (n=13)
Senegal y Gambia (n=16) Marruecos (n=13)
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Developing visual models
Type I - Assimilation Type II – Ethnic enclave
Type III – Transnational network Type IV – Multiple network
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But … A final caveat. So far visualizations and narratives
cannot capture by themselves all the effects observed in the data collected. For instance, thanks to the SIENA model (Snidjers et al. 2008, Snidjers, 2005) we found for instance that transitivity between the existing clusters of acquaintances is an important effect in the alter-alter pattern of change (Lubbers et al. 2008). This effect cannot be directly observed in the personal network visualizations because it is an emergent property of the network beyond the cognition of their actors.
So, a mixed methods approach are needed.
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Thanks!