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'''[https://purdue.brightspace.com/d2l/le/content/ | '''[https://purdue.brightspace.com/d2l/le/content/335123/viewContent/6819558/View Video explaining the final project + example code]''' | ||
Based on your work in this class, you will craft a pitch to help an organization make sense of their own | Based on your work in this class, you will craft a pitch to help an organization make sense of their own | ||
social networks and | social networks and include a portfolio of your work with data drawing on the previous labs and readings to support | ||
your pitch. | your pitch. | ||
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## Makes the case for the most important problems facing this organization or industry based on your research. Be sure to cite any literature that you use. (1 paragraph) | ## Makes the case for the most important problems facing this organization or industry based on your research. Be sure to cite any literature that you use. (1 paragraph) | ||
## Explains how a network approach and your expertise in particular can help address the sorts of problems facing their organization and industry | ## Explains how a network approach and your expertise in particular can help address the sorts of problems facing their organization and industry | ||
##* | ##* Includes at least three distinctive insights (e.g., my expertise in network analysis can help you identify opinion leaders in this organization). | ||
##* | ##* Includes example visualizations of each insight from your own work (or create new visualizations). | ||
##* | ##* Includes ideas from and references to the class readings to make your case. | ||
## Closes with a request for a meeting to learn more about their organization. | ## Closes with a request for a meeting to learn more about their organization. | ||
# Compile and submit your document on Brightspace | # Compile and submit your document on Brightspace | ||
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=== Examples === | === Examples === | ||
This project is similar to a final project that Josh Barbour assigns to his class. [https://purdue.brightspace.com/d2l/le/content/ | This project is similar to a final project that Josh Barbour assigns to his class. [https://purdue.brightspace.com/d2l/le/content/335123/viewContent/6819559/View View examples of their projects on Brightspace]. | ||
Latest revision as of 20:11, 17 August 2021
Video explaining the final project + example code
Based on your work in this class, you will craft a pitch to help an organization make sense of their own social networks and include a portfolio of your work with data drawing on the previous labs and readings to support your pitch.
- Select a potential employer, and research them to identify the pressing organizational issues facing them as a company.
- Write a document for a potential employer that
- Introduces you and states your professional objectives. (1 paragraph)
- Makes the case for the most important problems facing this organization or industry based on your research. Be sure to cite any literature that you use. (1 paragraph)
- Explains how a network approach and your expertise in particular can help address the sorts of problems facing their organization and industry
- Includes at least three distinctive insights (e.g., my expertise in network analysis can help you identify opinion leaders in this organization).
- Includes example visualizations of each insight from your own work (or create new visualizations).
- Includes ideas from and references to the class readings to make your case.
- Closes with a request for a meeting to learn more about their organization.
- Compile and submit your document on Brightspace
While I want everyone to write and turn in their own document, I encourage you to help each other with the visualization portions and to ask questions on the group Slack channel. I expect that the final document will be ~5 pages long (maybe longer if you want to showcase a lot of visualizations)
Format[edit]
You should write this in an R Markdown file, and then export it to a Word document.
Sample Business Data[edit]
If you would like, you can use data from a real organization. There are some great options of network data files already in igraph format at https://github.com/schochastics/networkdata.
I created an example of how to load this data, and how to run some simple network metrics and visualizations. There's an RMarkdown file here and the HTML output here.
Examples[edit]
This project is similar to a final project that Josh Barbour assigns to his class. View examples of their projects on Brightspace.
