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  • 1.  Social Network Mapping Tools

    Posted 01-24-2010 22:29
    Hi All,

    I am currently doing a project that requires us in its simplest form
    to map the client relationships of a key team (20 people) and to input
    and assess the strength, depth, and interconnectedness of each
    relationship.

    Do any of you have recommendations of programs that will allow one to do
    this without a steep learning curve. Most that I've come across seem to
    require extensive programming and mathematical knowledge.

    Suggestions would be most welcome!

    Thanks,

    Sue

    ____________________________________

    Susan David, Ph.D.

    Director, Evidence Based Psychology LLC

    Co-director, Institute of Coaching, McLean/Harvard Medical School
    Research Affiliate, Health, Emotion and Behavior Laboratory, Yale University
    Instructor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard University
    sdavid@mclean.harvard.edu


  • 2.  Social Network Mapping Tools

    Posted 01-25-2010 09:01
    I assume that you have looked at ucinet's mapping software. It is very simple matrix entry coding. I don't think you will find anything less complicated than that. If you haven't seen ucinet, its steven borgatti's software, available through analytic technologies. Best of luck, Dn.

    On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Susan David <sdavid@sent.com> wrote:
    Hi All,

    I am currently doing a project that requires us in its simplest form
    to map the client relationships of a key team (20 people) and to input
    and assess the strength, depth, and interconnectedness of each
    relationship.

    Do any of you have recommendations of programs that will allow one to do
    this without a steep learning curve. Most that I've come across seem to
    require extensive programming and mathematical knowledge.

    Suggestions would be most welcome!

    Thanks,

    Sue

    ____________________________________

    Susan David, Ph.D.

    Director, Evidence Based Psychology LLC

    Co-director, Institute of Coaching, McLean/Harvard Medical School
    Research Affiliate, Health, Emotion and Behavior Laboratory, Yale University
    Instructor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard University
    sdavid@mclean.harvard.edu




  • 3.  Social Network Mapping Tools

    Posted 01-25-2010 09:13
    Susan-

    I think that UCINET might be your best bet, although it doesn't make
    the nicest looking graphs. Basically you input an adjacency matrix
    (you can input excel spreadsheets too), the open up the file in the
    accompanying NetDraw program, where you can change the layout and the
    way the edges are displayed. Hope this helps.

    -Ben

    Quoting Susan David <sdavid@SENT.COM>:

    > Hi All,
    >
    > I am currently doing a project that requires us in its simplest form
    > to map the client relationships of a key team (20 people) and to input
    > and assess the strength, depth, and interconnectedness of each
    > relationship.
    >
    > Do any of you have recommendations of programs that will allow one to do
    > this without a steep learning curve. Most that I've come across seem to
    > require extensive programming and mathematical knowledge.
    >
    > Suggestions would be most welcome!
    >
    > Thanks,
    >
    > Sue
    >
    > ____________________________________
    >
    > Susan David, Ph.D.
    >
    > Director, Evidence Based Psychology LLC
    >
    > Co-director, Institute of Coaching, McLean/Harvard Medical School
    > Research Affiliate, Health, Emotion and Behavior Laboratory, Yale University
    > Instructor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard University
    > sdavid@mclean.harvard.edu
    >
    >


  • 4.  Social Network Mapping Tools

    Posted 01-25-2010 12:21
    Another option is also Pajek: http://pajek.imfm.si/doku.php
    And here you have an extensive list of SNA (visulaization) tools: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_analysis_software
     
    Best,
     

     

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    I assume that you have looked at ucinet's mapping software. It is very simple matrix entry coding. I don't think you will find anything less complicated than that. If you haven't seen ucinet, its steven borgatti's software, available through analytic technologies. Best of luck, Dn.

    On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Susan David <sdavid@sent.com> wrote:
    Hi All,

    I am currently doing a project that requires us in its simplest form
    to map the client relationships of a key team (20 people) and to input
    and assess the strength, depth, and interconnectedness of each
    relationship.

    Do any of you have recommendations of programs that will allow one to do
    this without a steep learning curve. Most that I've come across seem to
    require extensive programming and mathematical knowledge.

    Suggestions would be most welcome!

    Thanks,

    Sue

    ____________________________________

    Susan David, Ph.D.

    Director, Evidence Based Psychology LLC

    Co-director, Institute of Coaching, McLean/Harvard Medical School
    Research Affiliate, Health, Emotion and Behavior Laboratory, Yale University
    Instructor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard University
    sdavid@mclean.harvard.edu




  • 5.  Social Network Mapping Tools

    Posted 01-25-2010 12:42

    I expect that one of the many "tools" in ucinet is multidimensional scaling (MDS, possibly via annealing).  Standard stat packages such as SPSS also do MDS.  Ucinet has many other tools because different questions or uses of the data call for different methods.  But if MDS would provide a meaningful, useful representation, you may be able to do that with your usual stat package.

     

    Good luck

    John

     

    P.S.  It is possible to use MDS even when people have not reported their "pairwise" relations to all others.  See Wish, Deutsch & Kaplan, 1978, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.  However, the meaning/ interpretation of the MDS representation will depend on the nature of the input data.

     

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    Department of Psychology

    University of Waterloo

    200 University Ave., W.

    Waterloo, ON  N2L 3G1  Canada

    519.888.4567 x32164

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    From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [mailto:OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of David Noble
    Sent: January 25, 2010 9:01 AM
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    Subject: Re: [OB-LIST] Social Network Mapping Tools

     

    I assume that you have looked at ucinet's mapping software. It is very simple matrix entry coding. I don't think you will find anything less complicated than that. If you haven't seen ucinet, its steven borgatti's software, available through analytic technologies. Best of luck, Dn.

    On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Susan David <sdavid@sent.com> wrote:

    Hi All,

    I am currently doing a project that requires us in its simplest form
    to map the client relationships of a key team (20 people) and to input
    and assess the strength, depth, and interconnectedness of each
    relationship.

    Do any of you have recommendations of programs that will allow one to do
    this without a steep learning curve. Most that I've come across seem to
    require extensive programming and mathematical knowledge.

    Suggestions would be most welcome!

    Thanks,

    Sue

    ____________________________________

    Susan David, Ph.D.

    Director, Evidence Based Psychology LLC

    Co-director, Institute of Coaching, McLean/Harvard Medical School
    Research Affiliate, Health, Emotion and Behavior Laboratory, Yale University
    Instructor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard University
    sdavid@mclean.harvard.edu





  • 6.  Social Network Mapping Tools

    Posted 01-28-2010 11:17
    Susan,

    Sorry for reacting a little but late to this. I have used the short article included in the attachment. It is a Business Week description of an approach used to map informal relationships in an organizational unit.

    Hope it helps in some way.

    Thanks,

    Ivan Blanco



    -----Original Message-----
    From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [mailto:OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Susan David
    Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 9:29 PM
    To: OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: [OB-LIST] Social Network Mapping Tools

    Hi All,

    I am currently doing a project that requires us in its simplest form
    to map the client relationships of a key team (20 people) and to input
    and assess the strength, depth, and interconnectedness of each
    relationship.

    Do any of you have recommendations of programs that will allow one to do
    this without a steep learning curve. Most that I've come across seem to
    require extensive programming and mathematical knowledge.

    Suggestions would be most welcome!

    Thanks,

    Sue

    ____________________________________

    Susan David, Ph.D.

    Director, Evidence Based Psychology LLC

    Co-director, Institute of Coaching, McLean/Harvard Medical School
    Research Affiliate, Health, Emotion and Behavior Laboratory, Yale University
    Instructor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard University
    sdavid@mclean.harvard.edu


  • 7.  Social Network Mapping Tools

    Posted 01-29-2010 09:59
    Hi,

    There's an advanced template for Excel that will let you build social
    network graphs and do basic calculations on the network: NodeXL. It's
    available for free here: http://nodexl.codeplex.com/

    You'll need administrator access and a PC with Excel 2007 for it to
    work, but it's much easier to learn than UCINet, etc..

    Cheers,
    Libby

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