Connected Action

The Journal of Social Structure has released its First Annual JoSS Visualization Symposium results and two of the images were generated with NodeXL.  One of the two is “The Evolution of FCC Lobbying Coalitions” by Pierre de Vries, Research Fellow at the Economic Policy Research Center University of Washington, Seattle. Pierre has been a deep [...]

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Cover art and promotional flier for Analyzing social media networks with NodeXL: Insights from a connected world.

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NodeXL Network Server Frequently Asked Questions The NodeXL team has released a new version (v.1.0.1.126) with better support for collecting data from social media network sources, starting with Twitter.  The NodeXL Network Server program now ships in every NodeXL installation.  Tony, the lead developer on the team, created the following FAQ to explain how to [...]

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The Enterprise 2.0 conference is about to get underway in Boston. The event focuses on all the ways social media tools that are familiar on the consumer Internet are making their way behind the firewall in many enterprises and institutions. Why can’t you “friend” a colleague or “like” a spreadsheet or slide deck? Employees often [...]

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Hello!  If you would like to request a custom social media network map made with NodeXL, complete the form below.  I will generate the maps as requests come in and email you a pointer to the results which I will post to my flickr feed here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marc_smith/sets/72157622437066929/ Loading… Here is a sample map for the [...]

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Ben Shneiderman spoke on June 2, 2010 at the Faculty of Management, Tel Aviv University in an event organized by UPA Israel and the Leon Recanati School of Business. Ben Shneiderman: Methods and Tools for Facilitating Social Participation from User Experience Israel (UXI) on Vimeo. Nice review of information visualization techniques and some mention of [...]

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The June 9 issue of New Scientist contains an article featuring a map of scientific citation that was generated by NodeXL. The article about the patterns of citation and the time to publication for US and non-US based scientists contains a map of which papers and authors cite which other papers and authors. From New [...]

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I spoke on June 4th at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York City about what social media network maps can tell us about various political figures and topics. The video is available here: http://streams.civicolive.com/stream/127/5040/6000. Political discussions are obviously a major area of social media use. This talk explores the ways social network analysis and visualization [...]

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