ORA User's Guide 2010

Carley, Kathleen M.; Reminga, Jeff; Storrick, Jon; Columbus, Dave

doi:10.21236/ada528611

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“…QAP is a nonparametric test that measures similarity between two matrices of the same size, in our case the human coded and machine coded networks [40,41]. For computing QAP, we used the ORA software [42]. We found the correlation to be highest for window sizes around 15, which we subsequently chose for our analysis.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

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Construction of association networks from communication in teams working on complex projects

Dabbish

Towne

Diesner

et al. 2011

Statistical Analysis

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This paper introduces a semi-automated method for extracting the associations among components of a complex engineering project by mining transcripts of design discussions about the engineered artifact. We contribute a novel method for deriving network data from communication data. This method uses relational text analysis to construct networks representing associations among designed pieces of the artifact. Our analysis shows that association networks extracted with this method correlate highly with those extracted by humans, and those constructed based on expert interviews. This method can help scholars and practitioners understand the nature and evolution of the relationship between tasks and components, and the successful execution of complex projects. The association networks produced by our method can be used to reveal key properties of the project and may suggest the coordination required among project members. Collaboration technologies could potentially take advantage of these networks to infer gaps in actual coordination, discover changes in dependencies among team members as they emerge, and suggest appropriate courses of action to managers and people whose work is related. 

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Construction of association networks from communication in teams working on complex projects

Dabbish

Towne

Diesner

et al. 2011

Statistical Analysis

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“…the way each frames its action in relation to what it sees as the main problem to be addressed: for example, ecology, globalization, capitalism, or patriarchy (see the analysis section for more detail on the coding). Tabulations were produced using UCInet 6 (Borgatti et al 2002); graphs were produced using ORA, version 2.3.6 (Carley et al 2012). The issue of embeddedness is multifaceted.…”

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Embedding post-capitalist alternatives? The global network of alternative knowledge production and mobilization

Carroll¹

2017

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Since the 1970s, transnational alternative policy groups (TAPGs) have emerged as a component of global civil society, generating visions and strategies for a ‘globalization from below’ that points toward post-capitalist alternatives. This study proceeds from a neo-Gramscian understanding that hegemonic think tanks and TAPGs are embedded in opposing historical blocs, as they develop and deploy knowledge with the intent to make their respective blocs more coherent and effective. Here, we map the global network of TAPGs and kindred international groups – alternative media, social movement organizations, and international NGOs – in order to discern more specifically how TAPGs are embedded in a larger formation. In this era of capitalist globalization, are TAPGs, like their hegemonic counterparts, positioned as ‘brokers’, bridging across geographic spaces (e.g. North-South) and movement domains to foster the convergence across difference that is taken as a criterial attribute of a counter-hegemonic historical bloc? Our network analysis suggests that transnational alternative policy groups are well placed to participate in the transformation of the democratic globalization network from a gelatinous and unselfconscious state, into an historical bloc capable of collective action toward an alternative global order. However, this general finding must be qualified in two respects. On the one hand, there are gaps in the bloc, having to do with the representation and integration of regions and movement domains, and with the salience of post-capitalism as a unifying social vision. On the other hand, our architectonic network analysis does not reveal what the various relations and mediations in which TAPGs are active agents actually mean in concrete practice. There is a need both for closer analysis of the specific kinds of relations that link transnational alternative policy groups to other international actors, including intergovernmental organizations and funding foundations, and for field work that explores the actual practices of these groups, in situ.

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“…[18] A large variety of tools have been developed to help analysts with such tasks. For example, the Analyst's Notebook (I2) 2 , ORA [7], and UCINET [2] provide tools to help conduct network analysis. But the tools in this area go well beyond network analysis to include tools for web scraping, text mining, data mining, statistical analysis, geo-spatial analysis, decision support, simulation, and gaming.…”

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“…The center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS) at Carnegie Mellon University has been engaged in developing methods and tools that provide support from the data collection phases through the analytic phase to the simulation or "what-if" forecasting phase. This toolset contains the following tools: AutoMap [7] for extracting networks from natural language texts, ORA for analyzing and visualizing networks [8], and Construct [3] [6] for what-if reasoning about the networks. Analysts in this area always use sets of tools, in an iterative fashion, to address diverse questions with data that varies in type, quantity, and quality.…”

Section: Socio-cultural Analysis Todaymentioning

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Sorascs

Schmerl

Garlan

Dwivedi

et al. 2011

Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering

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An increasingly important class of software-based systems is platforms that permit integration of third-party components, services, and tools. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is one such platform that has been successful in providing integration and distribution in the business domain, and could be effective in other domains (e.g., scientific computing, healthcare, and complex decision making). In this paper, we discuss our application of SOA to provide an integration platform for socio-cultural analysis, a domain that, through models, tries to understand, analyze and predict relationships in large complex social systems. In developing this platform, called SORASCS, we had to overcome issues we believe are generally applicable to any application of SOA within a domain that involves technically naïve users and seeks to establish a sustainable software ecosystem based on a common integration platform. We discuss these issues, the lessons learned about the kinds of problems that occur, and pathways toward a solution.

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ORA User's Guide 2010

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Construction of association networks from communication in teams working on complex projects

Construction of association networks from communication in teams working on complex projects

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