🎞 Promise and perils of population-scale social network analysis

💥Free recorded presentation by Frank Takes.

💥A relatively recently emerging line of research is devoted to the use of large-scale population register data to answer enduring questions in the realm of social science. In this presentation, it specifically delves into the network dimension of such data, focusing on information from the POPNET project, which covers more than 17 million people (i.e., the entire population of the Netherlands) and approximately 800 million family, household, school, work, and neighbor-to-neighbor connections. The presentation highlights the potential inherent in this comprehensive and curated social network data through illustrative examples of results related to issues such as social capital, segregation, and migration. Additionally, it will examine several methodological considerations and challenges related to under- and over-sampling of individual connections within opportunity structures, including findings on the validity of real-world skewed degree distributions.

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📱Channel: @ComplexNetworkAnalysis

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