Using metadata to find Paul Revere
A researcher demonstrates some social network analysis techniques on a Revolutionary War-era dataset.
http://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metadata-to-find-paul-revere/
It's a fascinating intro to what you can learn from knowing what groups people belong to. There's matrix algebra involved, but the results are included. Of course, you could just tally up all this info by hand, but wouldn't you rather multiply some matrices? I know I would.
http://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metadata-to-find-paul-revere/
It's a fascinating intro to what you can learn from knowing what groups people belong to. There's matrix algebra involved, but the results are included. Of course, you could just tally up all this info by hand, but wouldn't you rather multiply some matrices? I know I would.