Learning and Knowledge Analytics - Analyzing what can be connected. Home | Navigator. Socrato Overview | Navigator. Society for Learning Analytics Research. Adam Cooper’s Work Blog » A Seasonal Sociogram for Learning Analytics Research. SoLAR, the Society for Learning Analytics Research has recently made available a dataset covering research publications in learning analytics and educational data mining and issued the LAK Data Challenge, challenging the community to use the dataset to answer the question: What do analytics on learning analytics tell us? How can we make sense of this emerging field’s historical roots, current state, and future trends, based on how its members report and debate their research?
Thanks to too many repeats on the TV schedule I managed to re-learn a bit of novice-level SPARQL and manipulate the RDF/XML provided into a form I can handle with R. Now, I’ve had a bit of a pop at the sociograms – i.e. visualisations of social networks – in the past but they do have their uses and one of these is getting a feel for the shape of a dataset that deals with relations. In the case of the LAK challenge dataset, the relationship between authors and papers is such a case. So, what does it tell me?