One of our core business school courses, Organizational Behavior, was taught by Professor Denis Trapido, who introduced the concept of social network theory to us. Uzzi and Dunlap’s Harvard Business Review article “How to Build Your Network” features an exercise on mapping your network manually to find information brokers: people who...
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We’ve covered the power of one’s own personal social connections with medical school & residency as an example, visualizing with LinkedIn using Inmaps, and Facebook using TouchGraph. The most intriguing visualization tool I’ve encountered is a bit unexpected: one that was made to highlight privacy issues and the NSA’s...
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We’ve covered the power of one’s own personal social connections with medical school & residency as an example, and visualizing with LinkedIn using Inmaps. How do you visualize your friends & connections in one screen, using Facebook? Touchgraph, an older Java application, seems to be the best way at visualizing your Facebook...
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My last post spoke on weak ties vs strong ties, and how important a social network is for “private information, access to diverse skill sets, and power” (Uzzi). The concept of weak ties first came from Mark S. Granovetter, currently a sociology professor at Stanford University and formerly at Johns Hopkins University. Granovetter introduced the...
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Rotations are one of the most jarring and simultaneously stimulating things about medical school. Every two to four weeks, medical students and resident physicians switch different teams, different environments, with a whole new set of personalities and experiences. Will there be an angry leader for the next month? A competent but brash intern? Or a...
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