POPNET

POPNET is a novel digital infrastructure and research community with the aim of unlocking longitudinal social network data on the entire population of the Netherlands for academic research purposes. It enables new exciting research in an anonymized as well as ethically and legally responsible manner. This research may lead to actionable insights into key issues including segregation, substantive social change, and UN sustainable development goals such as reducing inequality... Network analysis research has gained popularity in a variety of fields other than social sciences and humanities, including mathematics, computer science, physics, biology. Under the terms network science and complex networks, a plethora of techniques for assessing social complexity has been developed. In addition, a rich set of social network analysis approaches has been developed in the social sciences. Within POPNET, we aim to bring together each of these disciplines in an attempt to, in a multidisciplinary..