3 Contents and Schedule
Here is a roadmap for how to use this book.
Depending on your usage, you might wish change the sequencing of the content of this book. However, it is designed so that each topic can serve as the content for a week in a semester. The flow of the book follows the logic of a data science workflow that will help readers flow from wrangling, visualising and then analysing network data.
3.1 Unit 1 - Cleaning and Transforming
| Topic | Chapter | Assignments |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction | Chapter 4 | |
| Data Structures | Chapter 5 | |
| Cleaning #1 | Chapter 6 | My Ego Network |
| Cleaning #2 | Chapter 7 | |
| Attributes | Chapter 8 | |
| Two-Mode Networks | Project Prospectus |
3.2 Unit 2 - Visualising
| Topic | Chapter | Assignments |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction | Chapter 11 | |
| Basic | Chapter 12 | Data Exploration |
| Intermediate | Chapter 13 | |
| Advanced #1 | Chapter 14 | |
| Advanced #2 | Chapter 15 | Visualisation |
3.3 Unit 3 - Analysing
| Topic | Chapter | Assignments |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction | Chapter 16 | |
| People | Chapter 17 | |
| Communities | Chapter 18 | |
| Networks | Chapter 19 | Final Project |