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How to schedule the creation of a network with NodeXL and Windows Task Scheduler

August 23rd, 2010 · No Comments

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 [...]

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Tags: Connected Action · Measuring social media · Metrics · Network data providers (spigots) · NodeXL · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Sociology · Twitter

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 [...]

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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

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.

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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

New NodeXL Network Server (v1.0.1.126) – Frequently Asked Questions

June 14th, 2010 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: Metrics · Network data providers (spigots) · NodeXL · Social Media · Social network · Twitter · User interface

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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Tags: BoardTracker · Companies · Industry · Measuring social media · Metrics · Social Interaction · Social Media · Sociology · Technology · Visualization · Web Application

May 12, 2010: Princeton Club of Northern California – Silicon Valley Luncheon: Making Meaningful Maps of Social Media Networks

May 3rd, 2010 · No Comments

I will be speaking at the Princeton Club of Northern California on May 12, 2010. Event Date Time Location RSVP Silicon Valley Luncheon: Making Meaningful Maps of Social Media Networks 5/12 12-1:30 Palo Alto Krim Stephenson’97 As more and more of our lives take place online, we leave behind ever more data about ourselves and [...]

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Tags: Collective Action · Common Goods · Community · Measuring social media · Metrics · Network metrics and measures · Network visualization layouts · NodeXL · Research · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Social Theories and concepts · Social network · Talks · Visualization

How do airline twitter network maps compare? United v. Delta Airlines mapped in NodeXL

April 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Last week I made a video with Norm Rose from Travel Tech Consulting about the ways different airlines get talked about in twitter.  Norm explores new technologies that impact the travel business and he asked me to create two maps: one for United Airlines and the other for Delta Airlines.  In the video below, we [...]

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Tags: Companies · Connected Action · Industry · Measuring social media · Metrics · Network clusters and communities · Network data providers (spigots) · Network metrics and measures · Network visualization layouts · NodeXL · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Social network · Video · Visualization

Talk at IE University in Segovia, Spain: Transnational Connections, March 24-25, 2010

March 20th, 2010 · No Comments

I will attend and speak at a symposium being heldMarch 24-25, 2010 at the IE University Department of Communication in Segovia, Spain.  The topic is: Transnational connections: Challenges and opportunities for communication. “The Symposium aims to generate discussion on cutting-edge ideas in political communication, encourage international cooperation and unite scholars and practitioners.” The symposium is organized with Center [...]

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Tags: Community · Conference · Measuring social media · Metrics · Network data providers (spigots) · NodeXL · Politics · Research · Social Media · Social network · Sociology · Talks · University · Visualization

Sparklines guide Dynamic Filters for social networks in NodeXL v.1.0.1.111

February 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Time for another NodeXL update: sparklines!  Sparklines are a nifty and compact way of displaying a line chart in a small area. Setting dynamic filters in NodeXL has been somewhat like rummaging around in the dark: without a way to see the distribution beneath a filter the user only knows the max and min values, [...]

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Tags: Metrics · NodeXL · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Social network · Sociology · User interface · Visualization

NodeXL update: v.1.0.110 – New histograms of network metrics on Overall Metrics worksheet

February 4th, 2010 · No Comments

In the most recent prior release of NodeXL we added new metrics that describe networks in terms of their number of components and the length of paths in those networks.  In this release we automate creation of histograms of network metrics.  It is useful to see the distribution of attributes like in-degree or betweenness to [...]

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Tags: Measuring social media · Metrics · Network metrics and measures · Research · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Sociology

Path and Component Metrics, new in NodeXL v.1.0.1.109

January 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment

NodeXL has updated again (v.1.0.1.109) with new network metrics.  The application now calculates path length data for your network, reporting the Maximum Geodesic Distance and the Average Geodesic Distance.  The list of overall metrics NodeXL creates includes: Vertices (the number of nodes in the graph), Unique Edges, Edges With Duplicates, Total Edges, Self-Loops (Edges that point back at the node [...]

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Tags: Measuring social media · Metrics · Network metrics and measures · Social Interaction · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Social network · Sociology