David Schoch

David Schoch

Presidential Fellow

University of Manchester

Biography

I’m a PhD in Computer Science and currently employed as a Presidential Fellow at the University of Manchester in the Department of Sociology. I’m a mathematician by training and my research interests lie in the field of (social) network analysis. More specifically, I am interested in understanding the mathematical foundations of networks. I am also a semi-active blogger, writing about doing things in R and I am maintaining a football analytics website ( soccerverse).

Interests

  • Network Analysis
  • R Development
  • Soccer Analytics
  • Data Science

Education

  • PhD in Computer Science, 2015

    University of Konstanz

  • Diploma in Business Mathematics, 2012

    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Recent Publications

Legislators’ roll-call voting behavior increasingly corresponds to intervals in the political spectrum

Scaling techniques such as the well known NOMINATE position political actors in a low dimensional space to represent the similarity or …
David Schoch, Ulrik Brandes
PDF Code

Projecting Signed Two-Mode Networks

Signed two-mode networks have so far predominantly been analysed using blockmodeling techniques. In this work, we put forward the idea …
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Political Astroturfing around the world

Comparison of 8 disinformation campaigns on twitter
FB Keller, D Schoch, S Stier, JH Yang
Poster

Political Astroturfing on Twitter: How to Coordinate a Disinformation Campaign

Political astroturfing, a centrally coordinated disinformation campaign in which participants pretend to be ordinary citizens …
Franziska B Keller, David Schoch, Sebastian Stier, JungHwan Yang
PDF Code Dataset

What do centrality measures measure in psychological networks?

Centrality indices are a popular tool to analyze structural aspects of psychological networks. As centrality indices were originally …
Laura F Bringmann, Timon Elmer, Sacha Epskamp, Robert W Krause, David Schoch, Marieke Wichers, Johanna TW Wigman, Eveline Snippe
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Tutorials

SNA and related topics

Basic Network Analysis in R

Tutorial (updated: July 2019)
Data and R Scripts
Slides

Network Visualization in R

Tutorial (updated: March 2020)
Data and R Scripts
Slides

Advanced Centrality Concepts

Material (updated: July 2019)
Blog Posts ( 1, 2, 3)
Data and R Scripts
Periodic Table of Centrality Indices

R packages

graphlayouts
snahelper
netrankr
networkdata
signnet
roughnet

Generative Art

Creative Coding in R

Go to Gallery

Science Slam

I am an active Science slammer, mostly slamming about networks and disinformation on social media. Some of my slams can be found on youtube (all in german).

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