Session 8. Network Analysis

Date: Thursday, November 22, 2018, 16h00 (UK time)

Session coordinator: Tom Brughmans (Oxford)

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/zk_gWMG40-w

Slides: https://goo.gl/HR3YYc

Outline

Required reading

• Weingart, Scott. “Demystifying Networks, Parts I & II.” Journal of Digital Humanities 1, no. 1 (2011). http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-1/demystifying-networks-by-scott-weingart/
• Brughmans, Tom, and Matt Peeples. “Trends in Archaeological Network Research: A Bibliometric Analysis.” Journal of Historical Network Research; Vol 1 No 1 (2017): Inaugural Issue, 2017. https://doi.org/10.25517/jhnr.v1i1.10. https://jhnr.uni.lu/index.php/jhnr/article/view/10/5

Further reading

• Scheidel, Walter (2013). "The shape of the Roman world." Available: http://orbis.stanford.edu/assets/Scheidel_59.pdf
• Miranda, Pedro J., Murilo S. Baptista, and Sandro E. de S. Pinto. "Analysis of communities in a mythological social network." arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.2537 (2013). Available: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1306.2537.pdf
• Harris Cline, Diane (2012). "Six Degrees of Alexander: Social Network Analysis as a Tool for Ancient History." Ancient History Bulletin 26, 59‐69. Available: http://dianehcline.com/files/5214/0648/4349/0006b.HarrisCline_1_2.pdf
• Diane and Eric Cline, "Text Messages, Tablets, and Social Networks: The ‘Small World’ of the Amarna Letters", There and Back Again - the Crossroads II. Proceedings of an International Conference Held in Prague, September 15-18, 2014, 2015, 17–44.
• G. Fertig(ed.), Social Networks, Political Institutions, and Rural Societies (Turnhout, 2015), 281–304 Graham, Shawn, and Giovanni Ruffini. 2007. “Network Analysis and Greco-Roman Prosopography.” In Prosopography. Approaches and Applications. A Handbook. Ed. by Katherine S.B. Keats-Rohan, 325–36. Prosopographica et Genealogica. Occasional Publications of the Unit for Prosopographical Research 13. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Isaksen, Leif (2008). "The application of network analysis to ancient transport geography: A case study of Roman Baetica." Digital Medievalist 4. Available: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/4/isaksen/ Claire Lemercier, “Formal Network Methods in History: Why and How?” Available: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00521527/document
• Easley, David, and Jon Kleinberg. “Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World,” 2010. https://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/, with the full download here: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/networks-book.pdf. This book is a pretty excellent review of networks theory (with some game theory as well).
• Weingart, Scott. “Networks Demystified 8: When Networks Are Inappropriate.” the scottbot irregular, November 5, 2013. http://scottbot.net/networks-demystified-8-when-networks-are-inappropriate/

Exercise

• Learn the basics of making, analysing and visualising networks with the following tutorial: Network Analysis with Visone. It is a step by step standalone handout the holds all the description and information you need to learn network science from scratch. You can download the tutorial here: https://archaeologicalnetworks.wordpress.com/resources/

• For those wishing a more advanced challenge and are interested in both agent-based modelling and network science, you can try ‘Importing a Roman Transport network with Netlogo’. This is a step-by-step tutorial that teaches you how to import the ORBIS network model of Roman transport into the agent-based modelling software Netlogo: https://archaeologicalnetworks.wordpress.com/resources/#transport