📍 Online-only event
🗓 April 21, 2020, 12:00-13:30 CET
Why should we take networks seriously? What are the gains and sacrifices analysing our social world from a network perspective? The talk starts off with this general question and continues with a brief navigation through the methodological world of network analysis. A hands-on guide (in the statistical software R) on how to create, describe, and test patterns in networks follows. The last part of the talk is dedicated to current challenges in network analysis. This encompasses the lag of good and interesting theories in network studies as well as the challenge (yet opportunity) of estimating inferential network models on large datasets.
Lisa Lechner is Assistant Professor in Political Science Methodology at the University of Innsbruck. Her research interests are trade policy, tax policy, diffusion, and issue-linkage. Her methodological expertise includes automatic text analysis and network analysis.