Robert Ackland
Prof. Robert Ackland is based in the School of Sociology at the Australian National University (ANU). He was awarded his PhD in economics from the ANU in 2001, and he has been researching online social and organisational networks since 2002. He leads the Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks Lab (http://vosonlab.net) which was established in 2005 and is advancing the social science of the Internet by conducting research, developing research tools, and providing research training.
Courses taught by this instructor
Social Network Analysis in R
A practical introduction to the network perspective and social network analysis (SNA), with a focus on applications in political analysis.
Computational Social Science: From Social Networks to Simulating Societies
This is an online, self paced introduction to core concepts, methods and tools in computational social science focusing on three themes: (1) networks as data; (2) text as data; (3) prediction and simulation.