Sociology and Criminology & Law, University of Florida
Sciabolazza, V. L., Vacca, R., Okraku, T. K., & McCarty, C. (2017). Detecting and analyzing research communities in longitudinal scientific networks. PLOS ONE, 12(8), e0182516. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182516 [Download]How do we identify research communities at a university? How do we measure the
I’ll teach two workshops/short courses on social network analysis with R in June and July 2017 at the Institute of Health and Society, Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), and at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Universitat Autònoma de
R is known for its large and ever growing users community. This has generated a huge amount of learning resources available online over the years — including books, tutorials, Youtube videos, slides, blog posts, Q&A websites, full online courses and
I’ll be presenting some of my colleagues’ and my work for the UF CTSI Network Science program on Wednesday, October 26, at the UF Informatics Institute (UFII), with Dr. Valerio Leone Sciabolazza. More details and RSVP are here and here.Most
Vacca, R., Solano, G., Lubbers, M. J., Molina, J. L., & McCarty, C. (In press). A personal network approach to the study of immigrant structural assimilation and transnationalism. Social Networks. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2016.08.007 [Download]Social scientists have studied immigrants’ incorporation into new societies
I was invited to the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) on May 25-27 for three days of seminars and workshops on methods and research applications of social network analysis. The event is organized by the Puerto Rico IDeA Network for
Regular registration is now open for the XXXVI Sunbelt Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis in Newport Beach, California, on April 5-10, 2016. My workshop on ego-network analysis with R will be part of the conference with
On December 22 I’ll be in my hometown Bari, Italy, to teach a short seminar on social network analysis in studies of migration and environmental disasters.The seminar (in Italian) will take place at the University of Bari (Uniba), Department of
I recently created an interactive visualization of my collaboration ego-network. Some colleagues have asked for more details, so here’s this post.D3 is a JavaScript library for creating and manipulating data-driven documents. One of the many things that people can do
I’ll be in Tallahassee, FL, for a two-day introduction to Social Network Analysis at the Ethnographic Field School organized by Dr. Lance Gravlee, a University of Florida medical anthropologist. This is truly one of the best Community-Based Participatory Research projects