Overview

This was a fun project to test my learning in variety of disciplines related to social network analysis. Primarily it was a way to:

  • Improve my knowledge of R

  • Improve my ability to use R in RStudio

  • Convert external data into format compatible with statistical analysis

  • Apply descriptive statistics to explain a novel dataset

  • Use ERGMs to test hypotheses derived from the data

  • Use plots and graphs to clearly demonstrate the results of tests

Screenshot of the project running in RStudio

Reporting the results

Outside of nice graphs, there was actually evidence to support the hypotheses - but no spoilers. The report can be viewed as a pdf which has all the information, and is actually pretty short and readable. If I say so myself.

A preview of the report

Join in at home!

If you have RStudio you can run this project yourself by downloading the project files, unzipping them, opening ‘Star Wars Data.RProj’ and (making sure you install the required libraries) step through the code to follow the exact steps used to complete the report.