11 Social Network Analysis

11.1 spatsoc

Alec, Quinn and Eric developed spatsoc, an R package for generating social networks from GPS data.

Resources:

• blog post
• repository: ropensci/spatsoc
• vignettes, documentation: docs.ropensci.org/spatsoc
• paper: Conducting social network analysis with animal telemetry data: Applications and methods using spatsoc
• CSTWS webinar

11.2 Examples

The Social Network Analysis step in the SocCaribou project is a great place to start.

Alec also recently made a targets workflow for spatsoc, so feel free to check that out too: targets-spatsoc-networks

11.3 hwig

Alec developed hwig, an R package for calculating gregariousness adjusted half-weight index.

• repository: robitalec/hwig

11.4 Slides