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 'Sociology'
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
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
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
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
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
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 the twitter network of WWW2010 with NodeXL
April 28th, 2010 · No Comments
The WWW2010 conference is underway in Raleigh, North Carolina. This is a map of the connections among the population of people who recently tweeted the term “WWW2010″. The size of the profile photos indicates the log scaled number of followers that person has. The edges vary in weight, thicker edges mean more of the three [...]
Tags: Conference · Connected Action · Measuring social media · Network metrics and measures · Network visualization layouts · NodeXL · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Social network · Sociology · Visualization · WWW
30 April 2010, Friday – Workshop: Social Media Network Analysis: Next Practices in Social Network Analysis, Tools and Media
April 26th, 2010 · No Comments
I will present a workshop on social media network analysis at the next Network Singularity event at Fort Mason on the Bay in San Francisco on April 30, 2010. Bay Area and Silicon Valley Network: Special Action/Research Event Social Media Network Analysis: Next Practices in Social Network Analysis, Tools and Media Friday 30 April 2010 8:00am -5:00pm [...]
Tags: Connected Action · Measuring social media · NodeXL · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Social Roles · Sociology · Visualization
Video: Natalia Martín talks to Marc Smith and John Kelly about Social Media Analysis
April 25th, 2010 · No Comments
I spoke about social media with Natalia Martín Cantero, RTVE blogger and professor in digital new reporting at IE School of Communication-IE University in Segovia, Spain along with my colleague John Kelly, from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University and Founder of Morningside Analytics. The video was recorded at the symposium on Transnational connections: Challenges and opportunities for communication. In this [...]
Tags: Collective Action · Conference · Measuring social media · Politics · Social Interaction · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Social Theories and concepts · Social network · Sociology · Talks · Video
Bernie Hogan’s Facebook Social Network Data Provider and Visualization toolkit
April 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment
My colleague at the Oxford Internet Institute, Bernie Hogan, is working on tools that collect personal Facebook network data and visualize the connections among your friends. These tools now interoperate with NodeXL through the GraphML XML file format. Here is the new link: http://namegen.oii.ox.ac.uk/fb/downloadNet.php?type=graphml Here is an example: http://twitpic.com/9rvfq It provides a good illustration of the [...]
Tags: Data Mining · Facebook · Measuring social media · Social Roles · Social network · Sociology · Visualization
Conference: NodeXL and Social Media Networks tutorial at CHI 2010
April 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment
If you are attending the CHI 2010 conference in Atlanta and are interested in social media network analysis, consider attending this tutorial: CN03: Introduction to Social Network Analysis Time: Monday, 12 April 2010, 11:30 to 18:00 Organizers: Marc A. Smith, C.S. Ang, Derek Hansen, Panayiotis Zaphiris Presenters: Derek Hansen, Panayiotis Zaphiris Benefits This course provides an [...]
Tags: CHI · Conference · NodeXL · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Sociology · Talks
Talk on Social Media at the University of Porto, Portugal, March 26th, 2010
March 20th, 2010 · No Comments
Along with my colleague Eduarda Mendes-Rodriguez I will be speaking at the University of Porto next Friday, March 26th. Hands-on Workshop – Social Media Network Analysis in NodeXL This workshop provides an overview of Social Network Analysis (SNA) and its application to social media. The network or directed graph is a common structure in a wide range [...]
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