I’m coordinating this series of 8 hands-on workshops as a practical introduction to methods of computational social science and their implementation with Python and R. The workshops will be held in May-June 2025 at the Department of Social and Political
This page links to the reproducible project for Vacca & Bianchi (2024).
This is a crowdsourced list of social network surveys and software with links to questionnaires, codebooks, websites etc. It’s a work in progress and I appreciate any contribution to it. Main page on raffaelevacca.github.io GitHub repository
Next workshops and lectures: >> Workshop materials This series of workshops and lectures offers an introduction to egocentric network research and analysis in the R programming environment. Topics include: introduction to ego-network research and data; introduction to data structures and
Introduction to multilevel analysis with R for my seminars at the UniMi NASP graduate school and Behave Lab. Main page GitHub repository
Introduction to SNA with R for my PhD seminars at UniMi and University of Milan-Bicocca. Main page GitHub repository
The issue of how to use web-based survey platforms like Qualtrics for network data collection has come up repeatedly with students and collaborators during the Covid-19 pandemic. Joy Losee and Till Krenz at the University of Florida have written this
The UF Carpentries Club is hosting a R for the Social Sciences workshop on February 10-11th, 2020. They are currently in the process of recruiting helpers and instructors. The curriculum will follow the standard data carpentry curriculum with modules for
Criminological data can be very costly or hard to access as they contain sensitive information on criminal behavior and victimization. Recent developments in data science and computing, however, are opening up new ways to gather this once elusive data. In
Replication code for: 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
>> GitHub repository 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 to create and manipulate data-driven documents. One of the many things
