1. Network Canvas Duke Social Networks and Health Workshop 2017
Michelle Birkett, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Social Sciences

3. Pairwise Adjacency Matrix

4. Participant-Aided Sociogram
(Hogan, Carrasco & Wellman, 2007)

5. Participant-Aided Sociogram – in LYNC

6. Collecting multilevel data:
Large cohort study of young men who have sex with men (YMSM) ages in Chicago (N > 1000)
Collecting multilevel data:
Network – Social, sexual, drug
Psychosocial – Demographics, mental health, drug and alcohol use, HIV preventive behaviors
Biomedical – Testing for HIV (phylogenetic), STIs, and drug use
Participant visits every 6 months for 5 years

7. Software Requirements
Must be intuitive and easy for participants
Select, position, and manipulate nodes via touch
Must be able to capture
up to 40 nodes at each time point
alter X alter connections
complex node and edge attributes
dynamic data across waves
skip logic

8. NetCanvas-R Development Team
RADAR Network Team Co-Leads
Michelle Birkett, PhD – Co-Investigator
Noshir Contractor, PhD – Co-Investigator
NU Team
Gregory Phillips II, PhD – Research Scientist
Patrick Janulis, PhD – Post Doc
Oxford Team
Bernie Hogan, PhD – Product Manager
Joshua Melville, MS – Lead Developer

9. NetCanvas-R

10. Project Workflow Analysis netCanvas Application RADAR Protocol
Open source [GitHub]
netCanvas Application
RADAR Protocol
Analysis
RADAR Network Interview (netCanvas-R)
RADAR
Database
JSON File

11. Relational vs. Graph Databases
Data stored in a series of
spreadsheets – one with attributes
and one spreadsheet for each
affiliation matrix (sex network,
drug network, etc.)
Graph
Data stored as node/edge
properties

12. Evaluation of the Software

14. Efficiency

15. “This is a game-changing software idea”
R01 DA042711

16. MPIs: Michelle Birkett & Gregory Phillips II

18. Timeline

19. Outreach Conferences Website Online Focus Groups Yearly Survey
Sunbelt, NASN, APHA, CROI
Website
Online Focus Groups
Yearly Survey

20. Community Survey

21. Community Survey

22. Community Survey

23. Sustainment NIH Support Workshops Consultation
Strong Community Involvement

24. How can you get involved?
Keep an eye on our website
Sign up for our mailing list
Participate in a focus group
Give us feedback

25. Thank you funders, institutional support, and staff!
Thank you staff!
Research was supported by:
K08 DA (PI: Birkett)
R01 DA (PIs: Birkett and Phillips)
U01 DA (PI: Mustanski)