NETS7360 (Research Design for Social Networks) course reviews and ratings at Northeastern (NEU). Compare professors with RateMyProfessor reviews.
Analyzes the architecture of research—how to design ethical research projects that empower the researcher to make useful and interesting claims about the world. Topics include design research about social networks and how to measure such varied relational concepts such as friendship, love, and proximity; the effective study of "recycled" data—data not collected for research—such as Twitter, cell phone, or email data, and the ethical constraints in using this data; and how to design data collection so as to make robust causal claims.
Data updated October 2026.