Resources for Network Analysis
Sample data sets
China Dimensions data collection
Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection
Lincoln Mullen, historydata: Datasets for Historians
Tutorials
Marten Düring, “From Hermeneutics to Data to Networks: Data Extraction and Network Visualization of Historical Sources”
Martin Grandjean, “Introduction to Network Analysis and Visualization”
Miriam Posner, Cytoscape tutorials
Brian Sarnacki, The Complete n00b’s Guide to Gephi
Writing on networks
Peter Bearman, James Moody, and Robert Faris, “Networks and History” Complexity 8 (2012): 61–71.
Shawn Graham, Ian Milligan, and Scott Weingart, The Historian’s Macroscope: Big Digital History (Imperial College Press, 2016). See especially Network Analysis and Network Analysis Fundamentals.
Kieran Healy, “Using Metadata to Find Paul Revere (June 9, 2013)
Claire Lemercier, “Formal network methods in history: why and how?”
Manuel Lima, The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge (Princeton Architectural Press, 2013).
Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, and Trees: Abstract Models for Literary History (Verso, 2005).
Scott Weingart’s series on “Networks Demystified”.
Digital projects
- Micki Kaufman, “Everything on Paper Will Be Used Against Me”: Quantifying Kissinger
- Mapping the Republic of Letters
- Viral Texts: Mapping Networks of Reprinting in 19th-Century Newspapers and Magazines
- Rebecca Wingo, “Homestead Nebraska”
- Brian Sarnacki, “The Corrupt Network”
- ORBIS
- Andy Wilson, Mapping the Revolution
- O San Can You See: Early Washington D.C. Law & Family
- Network of Thrones
- Kindred Britain
- How every #GameOfThrones episode has been discussed on Twitter
- Network visualization: mapping Shakespeare’s tragedies
- Star Trek character network