Additional Resources

This is intended to be a catch all section which includes additional resources from around the web that you may find entertaining/useful. These are by no means required readings/materials for the course.

• There is self study course at the NPS Center for Homeland Defense and Security https://chds.us (Social Network Analysis - An Introduction) and other resources specific to homeland defense.
• Find out more about community detection algorithms: https://www.sixhat.net/finding-communities-in-networks-with-r-and-igraph.html
• Sample network data repository: http://networkrepository.com/index.php
• Free book on understanding networks, crowds and markets by drawing on ideas from economics, sociology, computing and information science, and applied mathematics: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/
• Free network science book (a bit math driven): http://networksciencebook.com/
• Map your own linkedIn network: http://socilab.com/#home
• Read about hookup networks in the show Grey's Anatomy (while reading about ERGMs): http://badhessian.org/2012/09/lessons-on-exponential-random-graph-modeling-from-greys-anatomy-hook-ups/
• Game of Thrones network analysis (one of a million): https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/Mathhorizons/NetworkofThrones%20%281%29.pdf

Games

Gaming is a great way to learn/reinforce concepts, try as few:

• Nicky Case's has a wonderful game (it really is very good) on networks and the "wisdom of crowds": https://ncase.me/crowds/
• GlobalECCO has a two-player game on dark networks, but you need to request an account before: https://globalecco.org/game-lobby