Scott Cunningham

Professor: Scott Cunningham, PhD (gmail, Baylor mail)

Class schedule: Tuesday/Thursday 2:00-3:15, Cashion 408

Office hours: Wednesday/Friday, 11:00am - 12:30pm, or by appointment

Syllabus (undergraduate, graduate)

Baylor honor code policy and procedures (link)

Lecture slides (pdf, tex)

Books

• Easley, David and Jon Kleinberg (2010). Networks, Crowds and Markets: Reasoning about a Highly Connected World. Cambridge University Press, 1st edition. (Cambridge webpage; pre-publication manuscript PDF)
• Jackson, Matthew (2008). Social and Economic Networks. Princeton University Press, 1st edition. (Princeton webpage). 

Articles

• Onnela, J. P, et al. (2007). "Structure and tie strengths in mobile communication networks". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 104 (18), 7332 - 7336. (url)
• Marlow, Cameron (2009). "Maintained Relationships on Facebook". blog post, March 9, 2009. (url). 
• Huberman, Benjamin, et al. (2009). "Social networks that matter: Twitter under the microscope". First Monday, 14(1-5), January. (url). 
• Granovetter, Mark S. (1973). "The Strength of Weak Ties". American Journal of Sociology, 78(6) May, 1360-1380. (pdf). 
• Newman, M. E. J. and M. Girvan (2004). "Finding and evaluating community structure in networks." Physical Review E, 69(2): 026113. (pdf)
• Burt, Richard (2000). "The Social Capital of Structural Holes", from New Directions in Economic Sociology, chapter 7, Russell Sage Founation, (pdf).
• Burt, Richard (2004). "Structural Holes and Good Ideas", American Journal of Sociology, 110(2), September: 349-399. (pdf). 
• Jackson, Matthew O., Tomas Rodriguez-Barraquer and Xu Tan (2012). "Social Capital and Social Quilts: Network Patterns of Favor Exchange". American Economic Review, 102(5): 1857-97. (url, data). 
• Bannerjee, Abhijit, et al. (2013), "The diffusion of microfinance", working paper (pdf).
• Carrell, Scott, Bruce Sacerdote, and Jim West (2013). "From Natural Variation to Optimal Policy? The Importance of Endogenous Peer Group Formation". Econometrica, vol. 81, no. 3, pp. 855-882. (pdf, supplemental material)
• Carrell, Scott, Mark Hoekstra and Jim WEst (2011). "Is Poor Fitness Contagious? Evidence from Randomly Assigned Friends". Journal of Public Economics, vol. 95, issue 7-8, pp. 657-663, August. (pdf)

Helpful software links

• Finding communities in R (e.g., Newman-Girvan method) (url)
• "How to analyze your Facebook friends in R" (url)
• "Analyze Facebook with R" by Julian Ho (url)
• "Introducing the Rfacebook package" by Pablo Barbera (url)
• Matthew O. Jackson's webpage (url)
• Economic Analyses of Social Networks, table of contents, 2013 edition (url).
• Reider, Bernard (2013), "Studying Facebook via Data Extraction: the Netvizz Application", working paper (pdf). 
• Short R references (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)