A first course in social network analysis with R

This website accompanies the practical introduction to social network analysis with R taught at the LMU Department of Geography. The course is part of the Bachelor Degree module Special Anthropogeography and is usually taught in the summer term.

The course is targeted at students with limited programming experience. Accordingly, the first couple of sessions include a general introduction to some R programming concepts, without delving deeply into the fundamentals.

Course structure

Session	Topic
1 - 3	Introduction to R
4 - 5	Basic network properties
6 - 8	Centrality measures & ego networks
9 - 11	Network communities & exogeneous groups
12	Modeling network structure I - blockmodels
13	Modeling network structure II - QAP & ERGMs