Statistics and Data links roundup for January through September 2010

• Making Working and Publication Tables in Stata – Review of various commands for making tables in Stata
• OS OpenData Supply – Download or order Ordnance Survey OpenData – open data * Outline of Great Britain<br />
  * Overview of Great Britain<br />
  * MiniScale ®<br />
  * 1:250 000 Scale Colour Raster<br />
  * OS Street View ®<br />
  * Boundary-Line ™<br />
  * OS VectorMap ™ District – New
• European Network for the Analysis of Political Text – The European Network for the Analysis of Political Texts (ENAPT) is a newly established network of PhD students and early career researchers who share an interest in the qualitative and quantitative analysis of party manifestos and other political text.<br />
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  The objectives of ENAPT include:<br />
  <br />
  * To collect and analyse political text in a systematic fashion using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methodologies,<br />
  * To organise meetings and workshops (primarily aimed at PhD students and early career researchers) regarding the coding of political text,<br />
  * To facilitate the dissemination of the findings of its members through conferences, workshops and the world-wide-web.<br />
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  ENAPT operates a mailing list at the National Academic Mailing List Service. To join the network and the mailing list, email Kostas Gemenis

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Who knows whom in a large group of learners?

Fortunately, I had a list of full names plus email addresses for everyone who had signalled interest in the lecture before the beginning of term, so I created a short questionnaire in limesurvey and asked them a very simple question: whom do you know in this group? Given the significant overcoverage of my list – in reality, there are probably not more than 120 students who regularly turn up for the lecture – the response rate was somewhere in the high 70s. If you want to collect network data with limesurvey, the “array with flexible labels” question type is your friend, but keying in 220 names plus unique ids would have been a major pain. Thankfully, one can program the question with a single placeholder name, then export it as a CSV file. Next, simply load the file into Emacs and  insert the complete list, then re-import it in limesurvey.

Getting  a data matrix from Stata into Pajek is not necessarily a fun exercise, so I decided to give the networkx module for Python a go, which is simply superb. Networkx has data types for representing social networks, so you can read in a rectangular data matrix (again as CSV),  construct the network in Python and export the whole lot to Pajek with a few lines of code:


#Some boring stuff omitted
#create network
Lecture=nx.DiGraph()
#Initialise
for i in range(1,221):
Lecture.add_node(i, stdg="0")
for line in netreader:
sender = int(line[-1])
#Sender-ID at the very end
edges=line[6:216]
#Degree-scheme
Lecture.node[sender]['stdg']=line[-8]
#Edges
for index in range(len(edges)):
if edges[index] == '2':
Lecture.add_edge(sender,int(filter(str.isdigit,repr(knoten[index]))),weight=2)
elif edges[index] == '3':
Lecture.add_edge(sender,int(filter(str.isdigit,repr(knoten[index]))),weight=3)
nx.write_pajek(Lecture,'file.net')


As it turns out, a lecture hall rebellion seems not very likely. About one third of all relationships are not reciprocated, and about a quarter of my students do not know a single other person in the room (at least not by name), so levels of social capital are pretty low.  There is, however, a small group of 10 mostly older students who are form a tightly-knit core, and who know many of the suckers in the periphery. I need to keep an eye on these guys.

260 reciprocated ties within the same group

Finally, the second graph also shows that those relatively few students who are enrolled in our new BA programs (red, dark blue) are pretty much isolated within the larger group, which is still dominated by students enrolled in the old five year programs (MA yellow, State Examination green) that are phased out. Divide et impera.

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So it is perhaps unsurprising that the hitherto pretty arcane idea of tactical voting (voting against your favourite party to support them) is now making headlines in the tabloids: Enter the Mirror’s guide to tactical voting for Labour and LibDem supporters. The information looks valid and may well be part of Labours last-ditch strategy to save what might be saved.

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