Final presentation from the A2 Data Dive. Feb. 10- 12, 2012. visit the wiki for more information: http://wiki.datawithoutborders.cc/index.php?title=Project:Current_events:A2_DD

1. African Health
OER Network
Network visualization
group
A2 Data Dive – Feb. 2012
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2. Question
(From the African health OER
network)
• How do Network participants
interact with each other?
• Who is interacting with
whom?
• For what purpose(s)?

3. 1927 Solvay Conference on Electrons and Photons

4. What data do we have?
How {event data}
• Unique event name
• Time
• Location

5. What data do we have?
Who {people data}
• Unique contact ID
• Employer
• Gender

6. Goal
Showing how pairs of
participants are connected by
events they both attended
B
A

7. Multiple events attended
together
= mostly TBD
Similar roles?
Similar location?
Common employers?

8. Goal
Showing how pairs of events
are connected by common
attendees
Event B
Event A

9. • A series of events, e.g.
(Health OER Tech Call) –
Is attendance
constant/increasing or
dropping off?
• Annual events to evaluate
active participants =

10. Code it!

11. •R - joining CSV tables
•txt2pajek – convert CSV
to pajek format (1/2
mode)
•Gephi – visualisation
•GUESS - visualisation

12. Events + people – 2 mode graph

13. events:
1-mode
graph

14. University of Malawi University of Western Cape
students staff
University of Cape Town
support staff (onference
calls)
Newly-contacted
University alumni
In Ghana
People – „betweenness‟ graph