Category Archives: Video Blogs

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What is social listening and why it is an important tool for researchers?

This video blog has been taken from a keynote speech I gave at the Emerging Trends In Marketing And Management conference earlier this month. The title is “What is social listening and why it is an important tool for researchers?” The video has been split into three sections, part one introduces the viewer to the concept of “social listening”

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Developing Semi-Structured Interview Questions: An Inductive Approach.

How to develop a set of questions for a semi-structured interview is a series of four video blogs focusing on the points a researcher should consider when embarking on such a task. This final video […]

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Developing Semi-Structured Interview Questions: A Deductive Approach

Developing Semi-Structured Interview Questions: A deductive approach is a series of four video blogs focusing on the points a researcher should consider when embarking on such a task. This third video blog explains how to […]

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Calculating the time it will take to do semi-structured the interviews

Before an organization initiates a research project they must first develop a project plan. Implicit within such a plan is calculating the time it will take to do the semi-structured interviews. The details of how […]

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How to develop a set of questions for a semi-structured interview: academic and commercial differences.

How to develop a set of questions for a semi-structured interview is a series of four video blogs focusing on the points a researcher should consider when embarking on such a task. The first video […]

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How a Page Rank is calculated in Gephi

This blog will illustrate how a Page Rank is calculated in Gephi and how it is used in social network analysis. The blog includes a video which explains the concept in detail:

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Identifying Influencers Using the Pagerank Analysis.

Identifying influencers using the PageRank analysis is ideal for the Twitter network. This is because such a network is directed. If you were focusing on an undirected network, then you would use the Eigenvector Centrality […]

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Creating a Group in a box Layout in NodeXL

In today’s blog, I am going to show you how to create a Group in a box Layout in NodeXL. NodeXL is a template for Microsoft® Excel® (2007, 2010, 2013 and 2016) on Windows (XP, Vista, 7, […]

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Social listening: procedures and practices.

  This video blog is from a recent presentation I gave at the Social Media in the pharmaceutical industry conference in January. It focused on social listening: procedures and practices. The topics covered were: what […]

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Gephi Statistics: Degree

  This vlog will introduce to the concept of statistics used in social network analysis. More specifically we will be looking at Gephi Statistics and its link to a node’s degree (Gephi Statistics: Degree). This […]

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Formatting Graphs In Gephi.

This video series explains the basic formatting requirements for Gephi. At the end of the series you will know how to change the colours of the nodes and edges or create views in relation to […]

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How to upload data into Gephi

  This is the first in a series of blogs focusing on social network analysis (SNA) using Gephi. This first blog (or video blog) will give you an insight into Gephi and explains how to […]

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