Connected Action

Once you start creating and collecting network graphs you may find you can build a significant collection: hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands of graphs may result from a study or on-going monitoring project. In a series of features in the NodeXL project we have enabled a workflow for constructing many social media  network graphs [...]

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As mobile devices become a major method for authoring and consuming social media, location data is increasingly a part of many posts, tweets, check-ins, and messages.  Many Twitter clients, for example, can add the user’s current latitude and longitude to the metadata associated with a tweet.  Other systems like Facebook Places, Google Latitude and Foursquare [...]

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Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues, (University of Porto) from the NodeXL team has created a sample network file that attempts to highlight the functions and applications of the social media network analysis toolkit.  The latest release of NodeXL now contains this sample file: In this map nodes represent the major feature groups and functions in the NodeXL application. [...]

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On Saturday 11 December 2010 A Symposium on Wikileaks and Internet Freedom (http://personaldemocracy.com/pdfleaks) was held in New York City. I did not attend in person, but the event was streamed live.  A colleague of mine, Zeynep Tufekci (@techsoc), a sociologist from the University of Maryland ebiquity group, did attend and spoke on the second panel of [...]

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Here is a recent collection of NodeXL related activity and commentary: Here is a great review of Analyzing social media networks with NodeXL: Insights from a connected world by Gerd Waloszek, SAP User Experience book reviewer: http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/ book_people/review_ana_sm_nw.asp Several  reviews of the book Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a connected world have [...]

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