5-Weeks Online Course on Interactive Visual Network Exploration

[BACH Benjamin]

Dear All,

The Vistorian team at the University of Edinburgh is running a free, hands-on online course that teaches the basics of exploring temporal, geographical, and multivariate network data (e.g., social networks) through interactive network visualizations. Exploratory network analysis is suitable for those working or planning to work with qualitative, quantitative, or mixed-methods research, at any stage of their research process. The course is particularly suited to help you working with your own data. 

We will use The Vistorian (http://vistorian.net), an online tool that provides interaction visualizations for networks: node-link diagrams, adjacency matrices, a timeline, and a map. Each visualization provides a complementary view onto network data. This course will assist you in visual network exploration as well as in prepareing your network data.

During the course, you will learn to 

• structure your network data and prepare it for visualization with the Vistorian.
• define goals of your exploration and what you aim to learn about your network data using visualizations.
• know a range of network visualizations, through theory and hands-on use.
• use different types of interactive visualizations to explore your data.

More information (including a detailed outline, times, requirements, and organization) are found our website: https://vistorian.github.io/courses.html. 

 

INFO SESSIONS:

We invite everyone to two upcoming info sessions where we will outlinet the course, demo the visualization tool (http://vistorian.net), and answer any of your questions. Both sessions are the same to give you more flexibility attending.

• Friday 10^th Dec 2021 4:00-5:00 PM UK time
• Or Thursday 16^th Dec 2021 5:00-6:00 PM UK time

 

The Info session will take place on Zoom: https://ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/83741473017 . Meeting password will be sent to  registered participants. To attend this info session please sign-up for it through this link https://forms.office.com/r/Wh019m3NNa

FULL REGISTRATION 

To register for the full course (limted to 20 places), please sign up here: https://forms.office.com/r/qAnvASgRyJ.

 

You can also join our Vistorian Slack channel on https://join.slack.com/t/vistorian/shared_invite/zt-zo1w94tf-dkrbkqsRQqOTxavI3R~m_w for more discussions about network visualization and exploration.

Sign up on our mailing list for updates on the Vistorian and future courses: https://groups.google.com/g/vistorian.

If you have any questions, please don't hestitate to contact us: m.al...@sms.ed.ac.uk

  

Kind Regards,

The Vistorian Team

http://vistorian.net

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Mashael AlKadi, University of Edinburgh ,

Benjamin Bach, University of Edinburgh, https://vishub.net/bach

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

[benj...@googlemail.com]

Hi All, 

The previous email about the network exploration course contained a wrong link. If you wish to attend any of the info sessions this or next week, please register here: https://forms.office.com/r/ez0mpKSc6W. It's asking you only for your affiliation and which session you'd like to attend. 

The link in the previous email points to the full registration form, which asks you for more specific information. 

Apologies, 

Benjamin Bach