I spoke at the eComm 2010 conference on April 20, 2010, talking about: Mapping mobile social networks with NodeXL: finding key users, groups, and locations The video is now available: The video reviews the creation of maps like this: That illustrate the connections among people who tweet the term “#ecomm2010″, scaled by the number of [...]
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April 19 -21, 2010 – Conference: eComm 2010: Emerging Communications
September 1st, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: Conference · Industry · Mobile Devices · Mobile Social Software · Talks
Bernie Hogan’s Facebook Network Map featured in Journal of Social Structure (JOSS) (Made with NodeXL)
July 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment
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 [...]
Tags: Facebook · Industry · JCMC · JoSS · Journal · Network clusters and communities · NodeXL · Oxford · Papers · Research · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Social network · Sociology · University · 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
July 12-13, 2010: Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, Redmond, WA
July 8th, 2010 · No Comments
Faculty Summit The 2010 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit was held July 12 and 13 in Redmond, Washington. Among the many panels and discussions related to the state of computer science the NodeXL team had several representatives talking about the ways network science education can be expanded using an easy to use application for network analysis [...]
Tags: Conference · Microsoft · Mobile Devices · Mobile Social Software · NodeXL · Research · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Social network · 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
Pierre De Vries Telco Industry Network Map featured in Journal of Social Structure (JOSS) (Made with NodeXL)
June 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment
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 [...]
Tags: Industry · Network clusters and communities · NodeXL · Papers · Politics · Social Network Analysis · Technology · 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
Video: Ben Shneiderman: Methods and Tools for Facilitating Social Participation
June 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment
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 [...]
Tags: Collective Action · Common Goods · Community · Maryland · Network visualization layouts · NodeXL · Research · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Social Theories and concepts · Social network · Sociology · Talks · Technology · Video · Visualization
NodeXL Image in NewScientist: Paper trail: Inside the stem cell wars
June 9th, 2010 · 3 Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Network visualization layouts · NodeXL · Research · Social Network Analysis · Social network
June 3 and 4, 2010 – Personal Democracy Forum 2010 – NYC
June 4th, 2010 · 3 Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Collective Action · Conference · PDF · Politics · Social Media · Talks
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 [...]
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ICWSM 2010 Liveblog, Day 3
May 26th, 2010 · No Comments
Fourth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-10) Michael Kearns Keynote Experiments: Graph Coloring / Consensus / Voting Topology of the Network vs. what was the network used for? Voting experiments – similar to consensus, with a crucial strategic difference. Introduce a tension between: -Individual preferences -Collective unity -Color choices; challenge comes from [...]
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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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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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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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