The Social Network Mapping Nexus (SNoMaN) is an NSF-funded project to develop an integrated research-educational framework for Spatial Social Network (SSN) analysis. This portal contains a data repository, R tutorial, open-source SSN software, and online infrastructure to support a connected SSN community. The goal is to help connect researchers, highlight new discoveries, and facilitate the coordination of professional activities such as workshops and conference sessions.
We hope you’ll join us in contributing to the exciting and growing field of SSN analysis!
Read more about the NSF grant award for CAREER: A Research and Educational Framework for Incorporating Spatial Heterogeneity into Social Network Analysis. This project and research is based out of Georgia Institute of Technology.
NEWS! Join us at SUNBELT 2025 in Paris.
NEWS! Below are names and presentation titles from our great three sessions at the annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) in Denver on March 28 2025 led by our team and Dr. Yujie Hu (U Fl).
James Wilson, Northern Illinois U “An exploration of a 19th century epistolary and botanical exchange network“
Fuzhen Yin, U of Colorado-Colorado Springs “Analysis of online mutual aid network during Buffalo Blizzard 2022: Actors and weak ties“
David Russell, U of Florida “A spatial social network approach to the diffusion of political violence“
Ruchie Pathak, U of Alabama “Examining the role of geography and social capital in farmers’ adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices in Alabama”
Boyu Wang, U at Buffalo “PySGN: A Python package for constructing synthetic geo-social networks”
Alice Kasakoff, U of South Carolina “Proximity of parents to their children in the United States in 1880: Evidence from family trees”
Sichen Jin, Georgia Tech “SNoMaN: A visual analytic tool for spatial social network mapping and analysis”
Hashir Tanveer, U of Alabama “Spatial modeling and mapping of likely cocaine trafficking network in Costa Rica”
Madelyn McLain, U of Michigan “Decision-making and connectivity across rural urban dam operator networks”
Sydney Turpin, U of Alabama “Assessing power dynamics and food access in the Alabama Black Belt Agri-food network”
Jamey Essex, U of Windsor “Diplomatic spouses and rotational life: Building community and social supports in the foreign service”
Kat Fowler, Northern Arizona U “Tracing the displacement of the human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP) through trade”
Timothy Pape, Bowling Green State U “The making of a regenerative ranching region”
Shiran Zhong, Western U “Absolute space or network space, which governs spatiotemporally extended effects in disease dispersion?”
