Greetings, I am June Gothberg, Lead Curator for aea365 and Research Associate at Western Michigan University. As Lead Curator, I am always looking for ways to expand the knowledge of evaluators through hot tips, cool tricks, lessons learned, and rad resources. While working on my dissertation, I made a great find and thought I would …
June Gothberg on Using Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) Software Read More »
I am Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and regular aea365 Saturday contributor. I wanted to take today and build on Marc Smith’s post from yesterday regarding NodeXL. Marc has been kind enough to do a bit of coaching to help get us up to speed on the use of this free tool, …
I’m Marc Smith, Chief Social Scientist at Connected Action, co-founder of the Social Media Research Foundation, and one of the team behind NodeXL I’ve been excited to see posts on aea365 from users of NodeXL such as Johanna Morariu, and Shelly Engleman and Tom McKlin. Rad Resource – The Social Media Research Foundation: A new …
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I’m Johanna Morariu, a Director at Innovation Network, an evaluation consulting firm that works with nonprofit organizations and foundations. Rad Resources: I want to share two extremely useful network analysis and mapping tools: Gephi and NodeXL. I use NodeXL for collecting, organizing, and analyzing network data and Gephi for attractively presenting sociograms or network maps. …
DVR Week: Johanna Morariu on Network Analysis and Mapping with Gephi and NodeXL Read More »
I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and aea365’s Saturday contributor. Our eStudy director just announced the lineup for January and February! Lesson Learned: AEA’s eStudy offerings are online, real-time, webinar-based training right from your desktop with no need to fly, or get lost in traffic, or lose extra time away from work, …
Hello, my name is Todd Honeycutt and I’m a researcher at Mathematica Policy Research. We’ve used social network analysis (SNA) in several evaluations, and one challenge we’ve encountered is missing data. Even with high response rates on surveys, you can still have missing data from survey and item non-response. You can also have missing data …
SNA TIG Week: Todd Honeycutt on Missing Data in Social Network Analysis Read More »
I am Russell Cole, a researcher at Mathematica Policy Research. At Mathematica, we have used Social Network Analysis (SNA) in a number of systems change evaluations. The goals of system change interventions are to affect individuals, organizations, and communities, with changes in outcomes occurring at various levels. In our work, we have used SNA to …
My name is Stacey Friedman and I am co-chair of the Social Network Analysis (SNA) TIG. I work for a nonprofit agency that supports health professions educators around the world. One of our aims is to create and sustain an active international community of individuals interested in improving the education of doctors, nurses, dentists, and …
SNA TIG Week: Stacey Friedman on Defining Network Boundaries in Social Network Analysis Read More »
Hi, I am Rebecca Woodland, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Through the Collaborative School Leadership Network (CSLN), I work with superintendents and administrators to evaluate and strengthen teacher collaboration. Recently, I have begun to incorporate the use of social network analysis (SNA) into this work, which has strengthened my …
My name is Irina Agoulnik and I am the 2011 Program Chair of the Social Network Analysis (SNA) TIG. My day-to-day job involves management of a large Interdisciplinary Research Consortium (IRC) funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Common Fund. To assess the effect that interdisciplinary approaches might have on scientific productivity and innovation …
