Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I Background
- Part II Applications, tools, and tasks
- Chapter 5 The life cycle of a network study
- Chapter 6 Gathering data
- Chapter 7 Extracting networks from data — the “upstream task”
- Chapter 8 Implementation: storing and manipulating network data
- Chapter 9 Incorporating node and edge attributes
- Chapter 10 Awful errors and how to amend them
- Chapter 11 Explore and explain: statistics for network data
- Chapter 12 Understanding network structure and organization
- Chapter 13 Visualizing networks
- Chapter 14 Summarizing and comparing networks
- Chapter 15 Dynamics and dynamic networks
- Chapter 16 Machine learning
- Interlude — Good practices for scientific computing
- Part III Fundamentals
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 5 - The life cycle of a network study
from Part II - Applications, tools, and tasks
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 June 2024
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I Background
- Part II Applications, tools, and tasks
- Chapter 5 The life cycle of a network study
- Chapter 6 Gathering data
- Chapter 7 Extracting networks from data — the “upstream task”
- Chapter 8 Implementation: storing and manipulating network data
- Chapter 9 Incorporating node and edge attributes
- Chapter 10 Awful errors and how to amend them
- Chapter 11 Explore and explain: statistics for network data
- Chapter 12 Understanding network structure and organization
- Chapter 13 Visualizing networks
- Chapter 14 Summarizing and comparing networks
- Chapter 15 Dynamics and dynamic networks
- Chapter 16 Machine learning
- Interlude — Good practices for scientific computing
- Part III Fundamentals
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Network studies follow an explicit form, from framing questions and gathering data, to processing those data and drawing conclusions. And data processing leads to new questions, leading to new data and so forth. Network studies follow a repeating lifecycle. Yet along the way, many different choices will confront the researcher, who must be mindful of the choices they are making with their data and the choices of tools and techniques they are using to study their data. In this chapter, we describe how studies of networks begin and proceed, the life-cycle of a network study
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- Working with Network DataA Data Science Perspective, pp. 65 - 72Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024