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 work with measures of network centrality, or the question of who or what is important in networks. I am also a semi-active blogger, writing about doing things in R.

• Political Astroturfing on Twitter: How to Coordinate a Disinformation Campaign

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• What do centrality measures measure in psychological networks?

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• Social Stratification from Networks of Leveling Ties

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• Centrality without indices: Partial rankings and rank probabilities in networks

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• Hypergraph Representations: A Study of Carib Attacks on Colonial Forces, 1509-1700

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Basic Network Analysis in R

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

Network Visualization in R

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

Advanced Centrality Concepts

Material (updated: July 2019)
Blog Posts (1,2,3)
Data and R Scripts

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

• david.schoch@manchester.ac.uk
• daschoka
• University of Manchester