EgoWeb 2.0 is free and open source survey software customized for social network data collection. I have been leading the development since 2009 for various projects I have managed at the RAND Corporation. The software is freely available at my EgoWeb 2.0 Github page . You can find out a lot of information on EgoWeb 2.0 by going to the wiki for this blog. There is a wiki specifically for EgoWeb 2.0 including information on how to access the software, install it, etc. Also, if you have any questions or want to discuss EgoWeb 2.0 or social network data collection methods in general, go to the EgoWeb 2.0 forum on this site.
The software is a modification of the software EgoNet but has now gone well beyond what EgoNet does. EgoWeb 2.0 files can be directly downloaded from the code sharing site Github.
I often conduct workshops on social network methods and use EgoWeb 2.0 to help introduce students to “think” networks as well as to provide them with a hands on tool to collect their own network data. I also conduct EgoWeb 2.0 specific workshops at network conferences such as the INSNA Sunbelt and NASN conferences. The next workshop is scheduled for June 18 in Montreal at Sunbelt 2019. I have also conducted EgoWeb 2.0 workshops for University network centers, such as the USC Center for Applied Network Analysis. Please contact me if you have a need for a customized workshop for your organization or research team. I am also always looking for research collaborations, so feel free to contact me if you would like to collaborate.
Before I started working on EgoWeb 2.0 I was a survey programmer for a market research company and a survey center at the University of Florida. Through this work, I was familiar with programming survey instruments with standard survey software that allowed for customized presentation of question screens and flows of interviews with skip logic. When I started working in social networks as a methodologist on NIH funded research, I was not happy with available options for collecting social network data. I found that I was changing our data collection instruments to accommodate software limitations. On the other hand, when I tried to use survey software, I recognized the extreme labor involved in programming these instruments from scratch for each survey and in processing the data once it had been collected into network data for social network analysis. EgoWeb 2.0 has helped solve both of these issues for my work and I am happy that I can also help others with their social network data collection projects by making the software available.
I’ll be posting in this site about updates to EgoWeb 2.0 and on the EgoWeb 2.0 forum. I will also post updates on the EgoWeb Facebook page and on Mastodon.