Next Hands-On will take place in the offices of Vlerick in Brussels
Hands-on : Social Network Analysis Challenge part 2- full day
Saturday, Nov 29, 2014, 9:00 AM
Vlerick Business School
Bolwerklaan 21 Brussels, BE
31 Business & Data Science pro’s Attending
Part 2:We had an excellent first session, the objectives have been defined and documented on the hackpad. Members of the team have requested more time to work together on the project. In order to facilitate this we have decided to reserve a full day.During this hands on session we will focus on Social Network Analysis. Today the teams will p…
Outcome day 1:
- Philippe Kerremans provided visualizations of top twitter influencers around the Brussels Data Science community. It is available at www.snalizzner.com/influencers/entry.php?id=4
- Mehdi El Fadil showcased other visualisations and analysis of the twitter social network, including community detection. An attempt to recover some of his results is described below. Mehdi also described the typical steps involved in a social network analysis project:
- Groups discussion yielded an analysis of Willingness to travel (see below ), and some participants set up twitter crawlers, to be used following other participants’ needs.
- We discussed and decided to have a longer, full-day second session on Sat 29 Nov so that participants would really have time to get some work done during the session.
