Handling Data

Handling Data

☼ Make your OWN copy of the BIG networks.

☼ I added a subfolder called “BIG Nets for final paper.” It includes a file from the Fall of 06 class for comparative purposes.

☼ You can save anything on screen as its own graphic for pasting into papers, or as a .vna file for further analysis. Say you want only the network of everyone in a dorm. You can select those in the node pane. Then save as.

☼ Any analysis you do will get added to your node attribute file.

☼ You can cut and paste from the node attribute file into excel for easier data analysis. If you do so, the safest thing is to copy the WHOLE file and do not change the order of rows EVER. When you paste back, put the cursor in the upper left cell, but not so the cursor is blinking (click once in other words), and hit ctrl-v.

☼ The restore deleted nodes and lines will always bring you back from the brink. Save new versions of file for different purposes.