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Family links<\/p><\/div>\n
I found a small linkage where I have my brother-in-law (OPP) connected to one niece in banking, and another niece in property management. I\u2019ve only had professional interactions with the OPP, with the other two strictly personal links.<\/p>\n
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Network metrics<\/h2>\n
The\u00a0chart and network metrics tell an interesting story, even if the Socilab network metrics results are for educational and entertainment purposes only.<\/p>\n
Network sizes<\/h3>\n
The results include two sizes for absolute and effective size of my network. The day I captured the data, I had 219 contacts, with an effective size of 184.3 contacts. The difference lies in the uniqueness of information, with the effective size estimating the unique number of clusters I\u2019m connected to.<\/p>\n
Takeaway:<\/strong> With an effective size of 33.19%, there\u2019s plenty of room for me to extend my reach, and I should look for further contacts.<\/p>\nNetwork constraint<\/h3>\n
The network constraint index measures the focus of my network on a continuum with 1 as open and 100 extremely closed. As I am scattered across a wide range of sectors, my value of 1.28\/100 means I am spread\u00a0across social groups. I must decide whether it\u2019s more important to remain disconnected (which exposes me to new information,) or to attempt to increase the level of connection in my industry.<\/p>\n
Takeaway:<\/strong> Looking at the network, I can identify several connection clusters, which strongly correlate with my regular interactions. I\u2019m comfortable with this metric as is.<\/p>\nDensity<\/h3>\n
My chart shows a density value of 35.98%, which means that about 36% of my contacts know each other. The value is derived from the number of ties between my contacts\/total number of ties.<\/p>\n
Takeaway:<\/strong> If I attempt to increase my contacts, I may see a slight increase in the density.<\/p>\nHierarchy<\/h2>\n
The higher the hierarchical value, the higher the dependency on a few focal contacts. My value of 40.17% shows that I have a limited dependence on focal contacts, although I identified a few. For example, my literary agent shown in the next image links me to other literary and publishing agents in my network.<\/p>\n
Takeaway:<\/strong> Increasing my contacts will likely increase my hierarchical value as well, since I\u2019m looking within the same industries and categories.<\/p>\nPublishing hierarchy and links<\/p><\/div>\n
Structural holes<\/h3>\n
The betweenness raw number for my chart is 22027.9, which is the number of bridging opportunities (structural holes) to which I have access. This is such an interesting value as it illustrates links between two people with me on the shortest path between those contacts.<\/p>\n
Takeaway:<\/strong> Increasing my overall contacts has no effect on this betweenness value unless I make an effort to introduce pairs of people linked to me, which I\u2019m not planning to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the last couple of years I have made a concerted effort to developed a LinkedIn presence. I can\u2019t quantify the impact, although I have been contacted by a few recruiters who have complimented me on my profile. Network view The Socilab.com network visualization tool is fascinating! I enjoyed drilling down into the graphic and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[25,26,27,24],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt521","tag-linkedin","tag-network","tag-network-metrics","tag-socilab","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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