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Ivan Klimov told: how the educational process is built on the programme, what is the assessment system, how to communicate with teachers and what are the recommendations before starting the education.

In the new episode of HSE Online's "+/- 10 Minutes" project, Daria Maltseva, head of the International Laboratory for Applied Network Research, talks about how social connections are formed, what models exist to explain network analysis, and how the Six degrees of separation theory works.

From July 4–8, the 14th Summer School ‘Methods and Tools for Analysing Social Networks’ was held by the International Laboratory for Applied Network Research (ANR Lab). The dissemination of knowledge about the most recent methods of network analysis is one of the goals of the laboratory. Social network analysis is an interdisciplinary field that studies networks of interactions between different objects (such as people, organisations, institutions, countries, words in texts, texts on the internet) and identifying hidden patterns within them.

Sergey Davydov, Analyst at the International Laboratory for Applied Network Research and Lecturer of the Online Master’s Programme 'Applied Statistics with Network Analysis', talks about network analysis using the example of the functions of museum workers (video is in Russian).

On July 8, the Summer School 'Methods and Tools for Analyzing Social Networks' ended. We present you a brief overview of the events that the ANR-Lab team held as part of the 14th Summer School.

On July 3, the HSE University building on Pokrovka hosted the graduation ceremony of the Master’s in Applied Statistics with Network Analysis (MASNA). The programme, which trains students to use modern approaches in data and network analysis, is taught fully online in English. We spoke to Jiaxuan Wang, Sergio Camposortega, and Iris Cilenšek, three international students who came to Moscow for the graduation ceremony. The recent graduates shared their thoughts about the online format and finally meeting their classmates in person.

The research assistants of the laboratory defended the final qualifying works (theses) for the Bachelor of the educational programs "Political Science" (Lika Kapustina) and "Sociology" (Arsen Khabibullin, Daniil Khomchenko, Vasilisa Vashchenko and Anna Pishchikova). We congratulate our research assistantss and decided to share some information about their works.

Stanislav Moiseev, Daria Maltseva and Tamara Shcheglova, in collaboration with foreign colleagues, conducted a comparative study of the attitude of Russia, Ukraine and Slovenia population to passive RFID microchips within the framework of the Fundamental Research Program of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE).