Connected Action

It can be useful to create networks randomly to use as training data sets.  A simple way to create a random network is to use the Excel RAND() function.  To create a random network of ten nodes use the following formula in a ten by two array: =INT(RAND()*10) the “INT” part removes the decimal places, [...]

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    I spoke at the 13th Annual World Knowledge Forum in Seoul, Korea on October 9th, 2012. Here are photos from the trip which also included talks at Sogang University and the Samsung Economic Research Institute and Hallym University and a visit with the social media analysis company Treum.

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I will keynote at the Predictive Analytics World event in Boston which will be held September 30-October 4th, 2012. The event has grown along with the importance of big data, analytics, BI, and data visualization. I will speak about the ways social media networks can be collected and analyzer to reveal the key people, groups [...]

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I will be speaking at the Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg, Russia at the New Media: Changing Media Landscapes conference. I will also speak the day before the conference about social media network research and tools.   Program Conference “New Media: Changing Media Landscapes” Higher School of Economics 16 Soyuza Pechatnikov St. St. Petersburg, Russia [...]

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Just released: Science@Microsoft – The Fourth Paradigm in Practice Book “This collection of Science@Microsoft vignettes illustrates some of the progress that has been made in a number of disciplines and describes the technologies that have been deployed to gain these new insights.” The volume lists tools for scientific research and includes NodeXL: NodeXL is a [...]

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During August 21-24, 2012 Summer Social Webshop gathered 55 students and 20 speakers for a week of presentations, discussions, and collaboration around the study and application of social media to social good.  Sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Social Media Research Foundation, and Grand, the Webshop brings doctoral students in computer science, iSchool, sociology, communications, political [...]

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I presented a Workshop on Social Media Network Analysis and NodeXL at the 9 August 2011 – Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (http://www.aejmc.com) in Chicago. See: http://www.aejmcchicago.org/ The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication(AEJMC) is a nonprofit, educational association of journalism and mass communication educators, students and media professionals. The Association’s mission is to promote the highest [...]

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I gave a talk that describes ways of analyzing the social and semantic networks found in social media at a workshop at the Web Science conference.  The event is a great collection of people interested in the exploration of complex systems and internet applications, particularly social applications.  It describes itself as ” inherently interdisciplinary, integrating [...]

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On June 4th in Dublin, Ireland the 2012 International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media. ICWSM gathers computer scientists, linguists, communications scholars, and the social scientists to increase understanding of social media in all its incarnations.  Now in its sixth year, ICWSM is a leading venue for cutting-edge research in social media. ICWSM-12, features a [...]

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My colleague George Barnett has edited the Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis. I contributed four entries with co-authors: WWW Hyperlink Networks with Robert Ackland, Australian National University Email networks with Derek Hansen, Brigham Young University Blog networks with John Kelly, Morningside Analytics, Harvard Berkman Center Facebook networks with Bernie Hogan, Oxford Internet Institute Description: This [...]

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May 1st, 2012 at the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers Innovations Seminar I will present an hour long training on: Innovations networks in Social Media: Creating Maps and Measures with NodeXL Speaker: Dr. Marc A. Smith, Chief Social Scientist, Connected Action Consulting Group Know who is becoming more important than know how.  Networks are [...]

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I will speak on a panel on April 13th at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, at an event sponsored by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.   The event “Ethics and Elections: Media, Money and Power” will feature “panels, break-out workshops, and debates on the role of political advertising, media “fact checking” on candidate [...]

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The 2012 INSNA Sunbelt conference will be held on March 13-18 at the Crowne Plaza, Redondo Beach, CA. Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning there will be an informal NodeXL meetup/tutorial at the conference hotel. I will present on Thursday, 3:50pm – 5:30pm in the Redondo Salon 2 & 3 in the panel on Analyzing and [...]

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Here is a map of connections among people who recently tweeted the term “peoplebrowsr”. “But what does that picture mean?” I hear this reaction frequently when I show people maps I have made of social media connections. I often point out that the map and the data can reveal people who occupy important locations in [...]

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Interested in applying social network methods to better understand the structure of your business or organization? In collaboration with Optimice, I will teach a workshop on Social Network Analysis for enterprises, organizations, and businesses using NodeXL. Self-paced e-learning (4 hours) Introduction to Social/Organisational Network Analysis Network patterns and metrics Software tools for network analysis Managing [...]

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