This event is a collaboration between the London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (LISS DTP), the Department of War Studies at King’s College London and the SoBigData project (plusplus.sobigdata.eu). Organised as an introductory, interactive seminar, it is designed to allow PhD students and junior researchers to explore and critically engage with innovative approaches to digital methods. Early-stage PhD students looking for ways to expand on their methods training or find new ways to collect and analyse their own data are particularly welcome.

The event is dedicated to the technique of visual network analysis. By means of conceptual discussion and practical exercises, the workshop will explore similarities and differences between tables and networks as intellectual technologies to store and analyse information about social phenomena. Theoretical discussions about overcoming the conventional micro/macro and quali/quantitative divides will be combined with a hands-on approach and a practical training with innovative tools for network analysis (medialab.github.io/table2net; gephi.org; ouestware.gitlab.io/retina)