In this repository you will find useful resources for Women in Network Sciences (WiNS), as a Starting Kit with Networks.
Another repository that may be interesting for you, it is the one created with information for postgraduates Women in Network Science
Next, you will find different types of resources that you could use to learn from the basics until the advances of Networks.
Books
Wasserman, S. and Faust, K. (1994) Social Network Analysis. Methods and Applications.
Freeman, L. (2004) The Development of Social Network Analysis
Carrington, P., Scott, J. and Wasserman, S. (2005) Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis
Scoott, J. and Carrington, P. (2011). The SAGE Handbook of Social Network Analysis
Borgatti, S., Everett, M. and Johnson, J. (2013-2018) Analyzing Social Networks.
Domínguez, S. and Hollstein, B. (2014) Mixed methods social networks research
Scott, J. (2017) Social Network Analysis
Perry, B., Pescosolido, B, and Borgatti, S. (2018) Egocentric Network Analysis
McCarty, C., Lubbers, M., Vacca, R. and Molina, J.L. (2019) Conducting Personal Network Research
Light, R. and Moody, J. (2020) The Oxford Handbook of Social Network
Places where to learn about Networks
Educational programmes recommended by NetSci
Graduate programmes recommended by INSNA
Workshops recommended by INSNA
There are many softwares created for data collection and analysis of those networks. Here, we leave a list of some of them:
R - Free software environment for statistical computing and graphics
R Studio - Free and open-source software for data science
UCINET - Software package for the analysis of social network data
Vennmaker - An Actor-Centered Interative Network Mapping Tool
Pajek - Analysis and visualization of very large networks
Gephy - Visualization and exploation software for all kinds of graphs and networks
Canvas - Software for personal networks
EgoNets - Software for personal networks
Visone - Visual Social Networks
Polinode - Collect, visualize and analyze connected data
VOSviewer - Visualizing scientific landscapes
In the next international organizations, you can found useful information about their communities:
WiNS - Women in Network Science
INSNA - International Network for Social Network Analysis
NETSCI - Network Science Society
Some regional organizations working on networks, organized themselves every couple of year to have annual meetings and/or conferences. Probably worth looking at those closer to where are you currently based.
NASN - North American regional conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis
EUSN - European regional conferences of the International Network for Social Network Analysis
REDES - Iberoamerican Community of Networks
There are journals focusing in understand society, and many other aspects of the reality, from a networks approach. If you are interesting in a specific topic, maybe you can go to each journal website and see what they had already published about it:
Social Networks. An International Journal of Structural Analysis.
Connections. International Network for Social Network Analysis.
Journal of Social Structure International Network for Social Network Analysis
REDES. Revista Hispana para el análisis de redes sociales.
The community of networks is very active in twitter. If you wan to know the most updated news, a good way is follow certain accounts, like:
WiNS - Women in Network Sciences
NetSci - Network Science Society
INSNA - International Network for Social Network Analysis
Lista REDES - Iberoamerican community of Networks
There are already a couple of Listserve around the community, in which you can subscribe to be update of the last advances in the field. In the next links, you can (un)subscribe yourself.
SOCNET - The Social Networks Listserv
REDES - Iberoamerican network Listserv: Click in “Forum” option to see the instructions for subscribe.
Other interesting resources that may be useful:
YouTube Channel of WiNS - Videos of the seminar series
RLadies - Community of women learning to code in R
YouTube Channel of Lista Redes - Videos of seminar series and events (in spanish)
Author/Maintainer: Repository maintain by Postgraduate Committe of WiNS council. If you would like to add information, or suggest some changes, please contact Francisca Ortiz (Postgraduate rep) by email: [email protected].