Extract the .vna file and open with NetDraw
http://www.mediafire.com/file/cj47z3gk9b5dl47/cck09_allforumvnagraph.zip (196.56 KB)
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| social network of CCK09 Moodle forums |
Compare with CCK08 graphs here: http://paaralan.blogspot.com/2009/08/cck09-cck08-forum-social-networks-in.html
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I just found your blog two days ago and have been reading the archives. I have been trying to read LMS discussion board data for SNA myself, and just found SNAPP two and a half days ago. I'm particularly interested in your workflow in this post:
ReplyDeletehttp://paaralan.blogspot.com/2009/07/cck09-benchmarking-cck09-social.html
steps 2 and 3. I find the same problem in having to sum up the vna files for threads within a module. I haven't worked out a good solution--the Ucinet time stack seems an option, but I want the strength network and not the talk network. If I read the vna file into NetDraw, select the Strength attribute and then export from Netdraw to Ucinet format, maybe I can time stack strength networks within a forum. I'm interested in how you worked out the aggregation of networks within a forum and the union of those fora for the whole course. If you have something written, or just some thoughts to share: mcnary.scot@gmail.com.
Interesting work in your blog.
Hi scot,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment. I will post my manual method and some scripts in the blog. I am also looking at how gephi can be used to merge datasets from Snapp using the exported graphml. I'll post the results on the blog.
Unfortunately both still involve a lot of manual methods. I think a script could be made such that you simply feed it the moodle forum urls and it will output a union dataset. But my programming skills are not good enough to do that. The only thing I can do is probably to come up with pseudo code.
Anyway, I'll try to post my latest workflow for CCK09 ASAP.