Network Science6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon

for Librarians

#ENYACRL2015

The Problem with Kevin Bacon

RANDOM NETWORKS?How does order come from disorder?

Networks have properties

– Follow rules=predictable

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Centrality

Closeness centrality

Betweenness Centrality

-weak ties

 

Yeah but…Librarians?Mission Statement 

 

Our mission is to connect people and the resources they need we must understand how information and human resources flow.

What better view than to see the whole picture through the fundamentals of the network?

DIY

• Social Networks• TAGS + Google Fusion

• Resource Networks • Open data sets (local demographics)• Circulation data

• Harvest using TAGS: https://tags.hawksey.info/get-tags/

Google Fusion• Save as csv• Upload matrix, cards, graph

• Visualize with Google Fusion tables• https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid

=1842W_7Vame71CRxIBc6_TEmbub2l1TqPPp61368S• Publish (http://bit.ly/1ICEqtz)

#CILDC

Sarah Bratt@sarahsbratt

sebratt@syr.edu