Anonymizing Data

[tristinautrey]

I understand that there is a manual way to anonymize data but it would be nice to click a button and have Polinode toggle between anonymized data and identifiable data. Thanks!

[apitts]

Got it - thanks for the request! Feel free to vote on your own request if you like

[vidgen]

In the meantime, I posted an R script to make a network anonymous:

Making your network anonymous

I use Polinode to survey my student classes, e.g., “who would you turn to for advice about this course?”. To give the network back to students I need to anonymise it - they can see the patterns but do not have names. To replace names with random IDs I created an R script, which takes in a network file, e.g., network_in.xlsx (with identifiable names), and writes out a new file, e.g., network_out.xlsx (names replaced by random IDs). The code and sample input and output Excel network files are her…

[apitts]

The option to automatically anonymize data from surveys when generating networks has recently been added to Polinode. When you click “Generate Networks” you will now see an option to anonymize that is off by default.