After reading\u00a0Using Metadata to find Paul Revere<\/em> I learned about the effectiveness of simple social network analysis.\u00a0 The data was gathered from David Haskett Fischer and was mostly lists of committee members.\u00a0 Next, the author compiled a “Person by Person” matrix to indicate relationships between people.\u00a0 People are linked through the groups they belong too and groups are linked by the people they share.\u00a0 After analysis of the amount of connections different people had Paul Revere appeared to score very highly. Thus, the analysis found Paul Revere!\u00a0 This showed that using network analysis will help pick out important people arithmetically. Had Paul Revere not been a household name, this would have showed he had a significant presence during the period.<\/p>\n

I believe this related closely with the six degrees of Francis Bacon because they both showed that important people can be found using unbiased network analysis. This technique has tons of interesting applications.<\/p>\n

I also found the post\u00a0Paul Revere’s Social Life<\/em> by SJ very interesting. SJ wrote “This made me think about how individuals use metadata in our every day lives in order to obtain information about people that we do not personally know.” It is interesting to think that the way we here of people can be applied to so many different applications from Facebook to 1500s historical texts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After reading Using Metadata to find Paul Revere I learned about the effectiveness of simple social network analysis.  The data was gathered from David Haskett Fischer and was mostly lists of committee members.  Next, the author compiled a “Person by Person” matrix to indicate relationships between people.  People are linked through the groups they belong too … <\/p>\n

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