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From here, the book builds from the above notions of why we might want network data to provide a set of considerations that must be pieced together when developing strategies to gather it. Chapter 2 elaborates the primary strategies for sampling and measuring social networks and describes how these combine into what is known as the boundary specification problem. In Chapter 3, I describe a number of available platforms for implementing social network data collection, with a focus on how these differentially prioritize some of the elements laid out in Chapter 2. Chapter 4 describes several ethical considerations that are unique to the nature of social networks research. Finally, Chapter 5 addresses data quality in social networks research by demonstrating how it is typically assessed, some common patterns of especially high/poor-quality data, and a few strategies for improving the quality and coverage of social network data. This will be followed by a few brief pointers to areas of opportunity for future development in social network data collection.

For the next two chapters, I will assume that researchers can match the conceptual aims to the methodological strategies of their studies. I will revisit some strategies for coping with these potential limitations in Chapter 5. Given the relational questions that can arise from the perspectives outlined above, the next chapter turns to how scholars can go about obtaining data to address these types of relational questions.