September 23-24: UC Davis: SNA Training Workshop

I will present a workshop on NodeXL at the UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center‘s Community Engagement and Social Network Analysis workshop on September 23rd, 2010. Registration.

CTSA Community Engagement and Social Network Analysis Workshop
September 22-24, 2010
University of California Davis
Clinical and Translational Science Center
Sacramento, California

OBJECTIVES

• Understand the basic concepts, tools, and techniques of Social Network Analysis (SNA) and how they relate to the evaluation of CTSAs and their impact on community research networks.
• Have sufficient exposure to a basic software tool for inputting and analyzing network data in order to undertake a simple social network analysis.
• Enumerate some possible uses of SNA and how to develop data collection tools or use existing sources to study the process and impact of CTSA on community engaged research.
• List primary authors of SNA analyses relevant to CTSA and community engaged research.

Presentation by Noshir Contractor from Northwestern University

10:30-Noon Demonstration of NodeXL Software

Marc Smith.

NodeXL is a free and open add-in for Excel that supports network overview, discovery and exploration. A contributor to NodeXL will provide basic instruction in its use, how to generate useful network statistics and metrics, how to create visualizations of network graphs and how to filter and display attributes that can be used to highlight important structures in networks.

1:00-1:45 Using NodeXL

Joe Hunt, MPH, Indiana University (with Marc Smith)

Using NodeXL to visualize interactions between investigators and CTSA key functions.