Bring on the Masters!
Welcome, @dora! @MoE speaks highly of you, so I am very glad to meet you on Edgeryders and look forward to seeing the two of you at MoN4.
Do not worry: you will have a full program well ahead of time. We will also publish data and software to be installed, or links thereto. For now, let me share with you some information.
- The main man, the master of the Masters, is of course Guy @melancon.
- There are two main ideas on the table. The first one is to look at methods to carry out the analysis of what we are calling semantic social networks. By this we mean social networks where edges carry semantics. This is possible and indeed already prototyped in Edgeryders, because the conversation induces a social network (made visible by Edgesense), and ethnographic software (Open Ethnographer) allow to associate meaning to each edge. The result is pretty interesting, because your data end up inducing two deeply related networks: a person-to-person one and a ethnographic code-to-ethnographic code one, where two codes (or tags, or keywords) are connected if they co-occur in the same interaction. Interrogating these twin networks in empirical research is a near-absolute first. This is going to be the main method of OpenCare.
- The second idea on the table is to look at Wikipedia data concerning health. We have a lengthy thread on this, and another volley of hackathon-related comments in an even longer thread on our first open meeting. I attempted a summary here.
Any preference? We can’t promise to do what you ask, but we will consider your opinion!