12. Relational Data
Content for Friday, April 5, 2024
Summary
Relational data—including social network data, but also other sorts of tie-based data—is very important, but slightly tricky to work with.
Reading
Kieran Healy, “Using Metadata to Find Paul Revere,” 2013, https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metadata-to-find-paul-revere/.
Shin-Kap Han, “The Other Ride of Paul Revere: The Brokerage Role in the Making of the American Revolution,” Moblization 14 (2009): 143–162, http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/faculty/chwe/ps269/han.pdf.
Gabriel Rossman, “Glory and Gore,” Contexts 16, no. 2 (2017): 42–47, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1536504217732052.
Slides
The slide decks for this week are available here: