Tag: SNA
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Latent Semantic Analysis
Five years ago, it seemed inconceivable to me that I would someday use Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) to assess online discourse data. I recall vehemently arguing against LSA in a certain online graduate course at OISE, in which Teplovs (2001) was one of the assigned readings. I came up with rather elaborate examples in which…
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Social Network Analysis
My previous blog entries (for e.g., in 2006 and 2007) on social network analysis (SNA) flirted with tools available in Knowledge Forum. At the time, I was focused so intensely on completing my thesis that I couldn’t delve very deeply into the literature or software (scroll down to see download links for UCINET and others). I did…