Network analysis: People and open source communities

Network analysis: People and open source communities

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  NETWORK ANALYSIS: PEOPLE ANDOPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES Dawn M. Foster @geekygirldawn   dawn@dawnfoster.com   fastwonderblog.com PhD  Student   University  of  Greenwich   London,  UK
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  WHOAMI • Geek, traveler,reader • 20 year tech career. Past 15 years doing community & open source (Intel, Jive, Puppet Labs, etc.) • PhD student at University of Greenwich researching Linux kernel Photos by Josh Bancroft, Don Park
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  WHAT IS NETWORK ANALYSIS? Studiesrelationships between units and looks for patterns and structure in those relationships Image from ANAMIA Project
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  AGENDA AND INFO •Gathering your data • Data manipulation for network analysis • Visualization • What else can you do? Image from a Northern Marina Islands Network Scripts, Data, and More:
 github.com/geekygirldawn/oscon_2015
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  I 💖 METRICSGRIMOIRE MailingListStats aka MLStats CVSAnalY - repos Bicho - bugs More Photo by Bitergia http://metricsgrimoire.github.io/
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  MLSTATS a) Install mlstats $python setup.py install b) Create database mysql> create database mlstats; c) Import data by running mlstats $ mlstats --db-user=USERNAME --db-password=PASS http://URLOFYOURLIST
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  EXTRACT DATA SELECT mp.email_addressAS sender,
 (SELECT mp2.email_address FROM 
 messages m2, messages_people mp2 WHERE m2.is_response_of=m.is_response_of 
 AND mp2.message_id=m2.is_response_of limit 1) AS receiver FROM messages_people mp, messages m WHERE YEAR(m.first_date)=2015 AND MONTH(m.first_date)=1 AND mp.message_id=m.message_id; people sending emails subquery: who they replied to limittime formanageable data Output: sender@example.com in_reply_to@example.com sender1@example.com in_reply_to1@example.com sender2@example.com in_reply_to2@example.com ...
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  EXTRACT DATA: SCRIPTS Reformat/ clean up data Reproducible Reduce human error oscon.py script Image from Mark Grealish github.com/geekygirldawn/oscon_2015
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  R / VISONE/ GOURCE Convert data for better use with network analysis Visualize data using
 RStudio, Visone, and Gource
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  Image from WebOps.com
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  WHAT ELSE? So manyvisualization tools Python network packages Network analysis is more than just pretty pictures!
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  Dawn Foster University ofGreenwich Centre for Business Network Analysis www2.gre.ac.uk/about/faculty/business/research/centres/cbna/home @geekygirldawn, dawn@dawnfoster.com fastwonderblog.com THANK YOU