Resources

Getting Started

To learn more about ENA as a technique and a tool, you may want to start with the following publications:

Shaffer, D.W. Quantitative Ethnography

This is first comprehensive book on quantitative ethnography

This video provides a basic overview of using the Epistemic Network Analysis (ENA) webtool.

Shaffer, D.W., Collier, W., & Ruis, A.R. A tutorial on epistemic network analysis: Analyzing the structure of connections in cognitive, social, and interaction data

This paper describes, amoung other things:

The theory behind ENA
The process by which ENA creates network models
Example analyses using the ENA web toolthis is an example

Shaffer, D.W. & Ruis, A.R. Epistemic network analysis: A worked example of theory-based learning analytics

This handbook chapter covers, amoung other things:

A theory-based approach to learning analytics
The process by which ENA creates network models
Development of ENA graphs from data to visualizations

Preparing Your Data

For a detailed guide to data formatting, see:

Shaffer, D.W. Formatting Data for Epistemic Network Analysis

For a detailed guide to data formatting

Siebert-Evenstone, A.L., Arastoopour Irgens, G., Collier, W., Swiecki, Z., Ruis, A.R., & Shaffer, D.W. In search of conversational grain size: Modelling semantic structure using moving stanza windows

A paper about how data formatting relates to ENA analyses

Data formatting for ENA
Model development from data in ENA
Explanation of stanza

Worked Examples

The following are implementation of ENA in different settings with different forms of data

Quardokus Fisher, K. Hirshfield, L., Siebert-Evenstone, A., Arastoopour, G., & Koretsky, M. Network analysis of interactions between students and an instructor during design meetings

An example of an ENA analysis of learning in the context of engineering practice

Wooldridge, A.R, Carayon, P., Shaffer, D.W., & Eagan, B. Quantifying the qualitative with epistemic network analysis: A human factors case study of task-allocation communication in a primary care team

This paper provides an example of using ENA to analyze practice in a health care setting

Eagan, B., & Hamilton, E. Epistemic Network Analysis of an International Digital Makerspace in Africa, Europe, and the US

This paper offers and brief analysis and considerations of basic concepts related to using ENA

Andrist, S., Collier, W., Gleicher, M., Mutlu, B., & Shaffer, D.W. Look together: analyzing gaze coordination with epistemic network analysis

This article offers an example of an analysis of eye gaze data using ENA

R Package

Looking for more ENA functionality, or want to do your analyses in R?

rENA package

The rENA package provides greater control and customization of Epistemic Network Analysis that the ENA web tool. In addition, it offers the ability to easily connect ENA to other statistical analyses