Connected Action

The Social Network Importer for NodeXL is a new graph data provider for NodeXL which enables each user to directly download and import their Facebook networks into NodeXL.  With this release, you can now download your own Facebook ego-network for analysis and visualization in NodeXL and other network analysis tools that can import GraphML.  Future releases will extract networks from Fan Pages [...]

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The Second Workshop on Information in Networks September 24-25, 2010, New York City Sponsored in part by the Initiative on Information in Networks Organizers: Sinan Aral, Foster Provost, Arun Sundararajan The second Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN10) will be held this year September 24-25, 2010, again in New York City. From the program description: [...]

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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 Bernie Hogan’s radial layout applied to representing Facebook Friend networks. http://jossviz.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/friendwheel-layout-of-a-facebook-network/ The Journal of Social Structure (JoSS) is an electronic journal of the International Network for Social [...]

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Fourth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-10) ***Microblogging 2*** Predicting Elections with Twitter: What 140 Characters Reveal about Political Sentiment (Tumasjan et al.) Successful use of social media in las presidential campaign has established twitter as an integral part of political campaign toolbox Goal: analyze on Twitter: 1. Deliberation, 2. Sentiment, 3. [...]

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by Dru! Can useful observations be made by studying the social media sea one bucket at a time? NodeXL has data import “spigots” for pulling social networks out of several social media systems including Twitter, YouTube, flickr, and email.  Twitter networks of follows and followers, reply and mentions can be extracted based on either a [...]

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or ? Are social media sites data banks, secure repositories of personal assets, or data pimps, soliciting intimate exposure for profit? I think these services need to choose.  I notice that the setting for who can see what in various systems is in flux.  I can set something to private today and may have to reset [...]

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My colleague at the Oxford Internet Institute, Bernie Hogan, is working on tools that collect personal Facebook network data and visualize the connections among your friends.  These tools now interoperate with NodeXL through the GraphML XML file format. Here is the new link: http://namegen.oii.ox.ac.uk/fb/downloadNet.php?type=graphml Here is an example: http://twitpic.com/9rvfq It provides a good illustration of the [...]

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[Vladimir Barash is liveblogging the ICWSM conference] 9-10AM: A Tempest: Or, on the Flood of Interest in Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining, and the Computational Treatment of Subjective Language (Lillian Lee) -Sentiment analysis using discussion structure: clasify speeches in US congressional floor debates as supporting or opposing proposed legislation -Individual doc classifier -agreement (degree) classifier for [...]

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My colleague Scott Sargent at Telligent notes that there are two sections of the March 29th Sunday New York Times feature articles illustrated with network graphs.  The Business section runs an article “Is Facebook Growing Up Too Fast?“ (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/technology/internet/29face.html) and the Style Section has an article on The Celebrity Twitter Ecosystem. My colleague Prof. Ben [...]

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Here is a good example of an application of Bernie Hogan’s Facebook edgelist extractor. Alan Shussman used it on his own Facebook account and generated the following image: Alan used the NetworkX tool and python to build this image of his sub-groups in Facebook. It does work nicely to highlight the life-stage clusters of relationships [...]

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