Connected Action

  I presented on social media network analysis on October 20, 2011 in New York City at Predictive Analytics World. A map of the connections among the people tweeting about the #Pawcon hashtag is below. Network Maps for End Users: Collect, Analyze, Visualize and Communicate Network Insights with Zero Coding Abstract: Networks are everywhere except [...]

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The Social Media Research Foundation is pleased to announce the immediate availability of ThreadMill 0.1.  ThreadMill is a free and open application that consumes message thread data and produces reports about each author, thread, forum, and board along with visualizations of the patterns of connection and activity.  ThreadMill is written in Ruby, and depends on [...]

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The Jive World 11 conference took place October 4-6, 2011. These are the connections among the Twitter users who recently tweeted the word #JW11 when queried on October 10, 2011, scaled by numbers of followers (with outliers thresholded). Connections created when users reply, mention or follow one another. See: www.jivesoftware.com/jiveworld A larger version of the [...]

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The Association of Internet Researchers conference is occurring now in Seattle, Washington. http://ir12.aoir.org/ These are the  connections among the Twitter users who recently tweeted the word AOIR when queried on October 10, 2011, scaled by numbers of followers (with outliers thresholded). Connections created when users reply, mention or follow one another. See: ir12.aoir.org/ Top most [...]

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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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#occupywallstreet continues to be an active topic of social media traffic. Here is the updated map of connections among people who recently tweeted #occupywallstreet: These are the connections among the Twitter users who recently tweeted the word OccupyWallStreet when queried on October 10, 2011, scaled by numbers of followers (with outliers thresholded). Connections created when [...]

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This year the IEEE Social Computing conference is being held in Boston, October 9-11, 2011. The NodeXL team from the Social Media Research Foundation have a paper on our newest layout feature in NodeXL: Group-in-a-box. Abstract: Communities in social networks emerge from interactions among individuals and can be analyzed through a combination of clustering and [...]

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The #Occupywallstreet movement is growing and lots of activity is taking place in social media.  Here is a map of the connections among the people who recently tweeted the term “#occupywallstreet” on 8 October 2011. Link: www.flickr.com/photos/marc_smith/6225446144/ Each user is scaled by numbers of followers (with outliers thresholded). Connections created when users reply, mention or [...]

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The Future of Technology in Education workshop met on 7 October 2011 in London at the University of London Computer Centre (ULCC) to discuss the ways technology is changing the learning experience. The hashtag for the event is #FOTE11 so I made a NodeXL SNA Map – The following is a map of the connections among the [...]

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Here is an updated map of the connections among people who recently tweeted the term “Oracle”: Connections among the Twitter users who recently tweeted the word Oracle when queried on October 5, 2011, scaled by numbers of followers (with outliers thresholded). Connections created when users reply, mention or follow one another. Top most between users: [...]

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  Orange is a major European telecommunications provider that has been focused on what they call the “porous enterprise” – organizations in which many of the previous boundaries and barriers between businesses and customers are gone.  Social media flows in and out of companies and mixes with public collections of discussions about them. Locked down [...]

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  The Workshop on Information in Networks 2011 was held at NYU September 30-October 1st. Over the course of the event a number of people tweeted using the hashtag #win2011. These are the connections among the Twitter users who recently tweeted the word win2011 when queried on October 3, 2011, scaled by numbers of followers [...]

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I have enjoyed and been educated by my previous visits to South Africa and the Mobile Web in Africa conference, now in its 3rd year. MWA gathers the many parts of the picture of mobile technologies in play across the African continent. I will speak again at this year’s event, focusing on social media networks.  [...]

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  The recent Strata Conference in New York City gathered many leaders in big data, data mining, and information visualization. Link: www.flickr.com/photos/marc_smith/6203313170 Connections among the Twitter users who recently tweeted the word Strata when queried on September 20, 2011, scaled by numbers of followers (with outliers thresholded). Connections created when users reply, mention or follow [...]

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HealthTap is a website that connects people with medical questions to health providers with answers. This is a map of the connections among the Twitter users who recently tweeted the word HealthTap when queried on September 28, 2011, scaled by numbers of followers (with outliers thresholded). Connections created when users reply, mention or follow one [...]

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