Creating a Virtual Yearbook of the REAL Mafia

Exploring its members' memories and connections

Esteban Lopez
UIUC PhD Candidate, REAL 'General'

Outline

  1. The Instrument
  2. Exploratory Analysis
  3. The REAL Network
    • Academic
    • Friendship
  4. The REAL Virtual Yearbook
  5. Further Analysis/Research

The Instrument


  • Sampled REAL Mafia: 400 (aprox.) e-mails sent
  • Number of Respondents REAL Mafia: 104 responded surveys
  • Number of attendants to this event: 120 aprox.

The 'Actual' Instrument

Exploratory Analysis

Demographic Frequencies

DegreeAffiliationPositionMafia Type
BA : 3University of Oviedo: 4Professor :16Master Student : 1
MA : 2CEDEPLAR/UFMG : 3Assistant Professor: 8Other : 2
MS :13UIUC : 3Associate Professor: 8PhD and Master Student: 4
Other: 1CIDE : 2PhD Candidate : 8PhD Student :43
PhD :85OECD : 2Economist : 4Visiting Scholar :54
REAL : 2Full Professor : 3
(Other) :88(Other) :57

Initial Country

Current Country

Duration in REAL

  • Mafia type by duration:
    • 0-14: Short term scholars (Spaniards & Brazilian Sandwich Mostly)
    • 14-28: Long term scholars & Masters
    • 28+: PhD Students and REAL lovers.

Academics at REAL

1st most important research area at REAL.

  • within Regional Economic Growth falls:

    • Neoclasical, Endogenous & Spatial Growth Models
    • CGEs, static, dynamic and spatial
    • Regional growth and convergence
    • Spatial Policy for Growth and Equity
  • together Growth, Spatial Econometrics, Housing & Labor make up to 63%

2nd most important research area at REAL.

  • All spatial sciences grow in importance
  • Further survey should have a finer categorization

Productivity by Mafia Type

Productivity by Research Area (1st)

Productivity by Research Area (1st) & No. of Months

Productivity by Research Area (2nd)

Productivity by Research Area (2nd) & No. of Months

The REAL Network

The REAL Mafia Network: Academic Influence

  • Network Diameter: 9
  • Average Degree: 1.872
  • Graph Density: 0.013
  • Ave. Path Length: 3.09
  • Size: In-Degree
  • Colors: Out-Degree (red=low, green=high)

The REAL Mafia Network: Academic Influence

The REAL Mafia Network: Academic Influence (No Geoff)

  • Network Diameter: 9
  • Average Degree: 1.579
  • Graph Density: 0.011
  • Ave. Path Length: 3.199
  • Size: In-Degree
  • Colors: Out-Degree (red=low, green=high)

The REAL Mafia Network: Academic Influence (No Geoff)

The REAL Mafia Network: Friendship Influence

  • Network Diameter: 10
  • Average Degree: 2.058
  • Graph Density: 0.013
  • Ave. Path Length: 3.521
  • Size: In-Degree
  • Colors: Out-Degree (red=low, green=high)

The REAL Mafia Network: Friendship Influence

The REAL Virtual Yearbook

Further analysis/research

  • Actual Working papers' colaboration
  • UIUC Faculty Colaboration
  • Semantic Analysis (word clouds, annecdote networks)
  • Spatial Analysis
  • Conference Attendance (affiliation networks)
  • etc., etc.,... \(\leadsto +\infty\)

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