NodeXL has a number of data importers that can create a network of connections from social media data sources like Twitter, YouTube, flickr, email, and the WWW (along with a number of other data import formats like GraphML, UCINet, CSV, and other Excel workbooks with data). To create a network you just select the search [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Measuring social media'
How to schedule the creation of a network with NodeXL and Windows Task Scheduler
August 23rd, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: Connected Action · Measuring social media · Metrics · Network data providers (spigots) · NodeXL · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Sociology · Twitter
July 26-30 – Catalyst 2010 conference – Social Networks in the Enterprise
July 29th, 2010 · 2 Comments
I spoke at the 2010 Catalyst Conference in San Diego on July 29th. The conference hashtag is #CAT10. The slides are here: 2010 Catalyst Conference – Trends in Social Network Analysis View more presentations from Marc Smith. A few days before the conference started the #CAT10 twitter social network map looked like this: 26 July [...]
Tags: Catalyst · Companies · Conference · Connected Action · Industry · Measuring social media · Network metrics and measures · NodeXL · Social Network Analysis · Social Theories and concepts · Social network · Visualization
July 22st, 2010 SNA event at Stanford: Network Analysis Made Easy: Using NodeXL To Map Social Media Networks
July 8th, 2010 · No Comments
There is a Stanford Media X event on July 22nd, 2010 on new tools for SNA: Network Analysis Made Easy: Using NodeXL To Map Social Media Networks http://mediax.stanford.edu/WSI/marc.html Bring a laptop (running Windows and Office 2007 or 2010) to this workshop and you can be analyzing a social media network from systems like Twitter, flickr, YouTube [...]
Tags: Connected Action · Measuring social media · Media-X · Metrics · Network clusters and communities · Network data providers (spigots) · Network metrics and measures · Network visualization layouts · NodeXL · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Social network · Stanford · Talks · Visualization
Paper: Tech Report at University of Maryland on EventGraphs
July 8th, 2010 · No Comments
A new paper on visualizing social media has been released on the University of Maryland, Human Computer Interaction Laboratory tech report archive. Co-authored by Derek Hansen, myself, and Ben Shneiderman, the paper describes and visualizes the patterns of connections formed when people tweet about events like conferences and news stories. EventGraphs_2010_HCIL_Tech_Report http://www.cs.umd.edu/localphp/hcil/tech-reports-search.php?number=2010-13 Hansen, D., Smith, [...]
Tags: Community · Connected Action · Maryland · Measuring social media · NodeXL · Papers · Research · Social Interaction · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Social network · Sociology · Twitter · University · Visualization
Mapping the connections among people who tweet #sunbelt
July 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment
The International Sunbelt Social Network Conference is the official conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA). This year’s INSNA “Sunbelt” conference is at the Riva del Garda Fierecongressi, Trento, Italy! Here is the 2010 INSNA Sunbelt Program. This is the NodeXL map of connections among people who tweeted the hashtag used for the conference “#sunbelt”. [...]
Tags: Conference · INSNA Sunbelt · Measuring social media · NodeXL · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Social network · Twitter · Visualization
Book: Flier and Cover Art – Analyzing social media networks with NodeXL: Insights from a connected world
June 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Cover art and promotional flier for Analyzing social media networks with NodeXL: Insights from a connected world.
Tags: Book · Collective Action · Common Goods · Community · Connected Action · Maryland · Measuring social media · Metrics · Network clusters and communities · Network data providers (spigots) · Network metrics and measures · Network visualization layouts · NodeXL · Performance scale parallel and cloud computing · Research · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Social Roles · Social network · Sociology · University · User interface · Visualization
Mapping #e2 OR #e2conf connections in Twitter with NodeXL
June 13th, 2010 · 2 Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Conference · Connected Action · Enterprise 2.0 · Industry · Measuring social media · NodeXL · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Social network · Twitter · Visualization
Request a NodeXL Social Media Network Map
June 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment
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 [...]
Tags: Connected Action · Measuring social media · NodeXL · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Social network · Twitter · Visualization
May 28th, 2010 – Workshop: Government Applications of Social Media Networks and Communities, University of Maryland, Human Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL)
May 27th, 2010 · No Comments
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/soh/ The HCIL Government Applications of Social Media Networks & Communities Workshop, as part of the 27th Annual Human Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL) Symposium, at the University of Maryland, examined how social media can be systematically applied to increase civic participation on national priorities. When: Friday, May 28, 2010, 9:30am-4:00pm Where: CSIC Building, UMD, College Park Who: Government thought [...]
Tags: Conference · Connected Action · Maryland · Measuring social media · NodeXL · Research · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Social network · Sociology · Talks · University · Visualization
ICWSM 2010 Liveblog, Day 2
May 25th, 2010 · 2 Comments
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. [...]
Tags: Conference · Data Mining · Facebook · ICWSM · Interdisciplinary · Measuring social media · Metrics · Microsoft · Research · Twitter · Uncategorized · YouTube · flickr
ICWSM 2010 Liveblog, Day 1
May 24th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Fourth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-10) We will be liveblogging (when possible) from ICWSM 2010, going on now! Keynote: Bob Kraut, CMU implications for community design -offline theories of socialization helpful, not definitive -online communities can build in good socialization practice -e.g. WP welcoming committee Two Types of Commitments to Groups [...]
Tags: Conference · Data Mining · ICWSM · Industry · Measuring social media · Metrics · Papers · Research · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Social network · Talks · Twitter · Visualization
NodeXL TwitterScope: social media science in a bucket
May 23rd, 2010 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Connected Action · Facebook · Google · Measuring social media · Metrics · NodeXL · Research · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Social network · Sociology · Twitter
May 23, 2010 – Tutorial: NodeXL and Social Media Network Analysis at ICWSM 2010
May 22nd, 2010 · No Comments
Fourth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-10) May 23-26, 2010 George Washington University, Washington, DC Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence The ICWSM 2010 conference starts Sunday. This is a very high quality conference on the study of social media. My colleague, Professor Derek Hansen, and I will [...]
Tags: Collective Action · Common Goods · Community · Conference · Connected Action · ICWSM · Maryland · Measuring social media · Metrics · Mobile Social Software · Network clusters and communities · Network data providers (spigots) · Network metrics and measures · Network visualization layouts · NodeXL · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Social Roles · Social Theories and concepts · Social network · Sociology · Talks · Visualization
Boardtracker adds AuthorLine visualizations to threaded discussion search service
May 18th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Boardtracker is a search engine and reporting service for threaded discussions. Recently, the BoardTracker folks implemented a visualization of author activity overtime that was inspired by work Fernanda Viegas and I did in 2003/2004 called “AuthorLines”. AuthorLine visualizations represent the weekly rates and nature of contribution from a single author over the span of a [...]
Tags: BoardTracker · Companies · Industry · Measuring social media · Metrics · Social Interaction · Social Media · Sociology · Technology · Visualization · Web Application
Mapping connections among twitter users who tweet CRM, SCRM, and Social Graph
May 18th, 2010 · No Comments
CRM, SCRM, and the social graph are all hot topics. This is a map (a social graph) of connections among recent twitter users who tweeted the term “social graph” This is a list of the top “betweeness” contributors in that map: these are the people who most “bridge” different parts of the network. This is a [...]
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