Playing with numbers…

Paolo asks for an example to clarify the post below. Let’s see if I can do that. The network picture is an information network, drawn by the actor “parboiler”, located in the middle of the picture. This is one of a number of interviews we want to look at. The table shows the degree centrality [...]

Everyone thinks he’s the center of the universe

And they don’t know that it’s really me… That’s what you get, when you ask people to draw their networks, they (most of us) will draw a network that makes them look much better connected than most other people in the network. That does not necessarily show their delusion of grandeur but just reflects the [...]

Strange

Do you know the feeling: You only realize something, after you actually said it? Today I was asked to write a few sentences about myself, as kind of an informal introduction. This is what I wrote: “I’m German and live in Washington DC for 2 1/2 year now, before I lived and worked in Ghana, [...]

Count ‘em

One new year’s resolution: Every day I will make a list of three things I am grateful for. Counting my blessings. Grand and mundane. My beautiful baby and the crunchy fennel and anything in between. Maybe I’ll start yoga or meditating or running next year. For this year, that’s about as much time as I’m [...]

The truest truth?

In an African country (that I won’t name now, as it could be any and we are in the middle of the process) we are mapping people’s perceptions of who influences specific policy making processes. After a first look at the resulting maps we realize that there are two quite different narratives: Some people say: [...]