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July 26-30 – Catalyst 2010 conference – Social Networks in the Enterprise

July 29th, 2010 · 2 Comments

I spoke at the 2010 Catalyst Conference in San Diego on July 29th. The conference hashtag is #CAT10. The slides are here: 2010 Catalyst Conference – Trends in Social Network Analysis View more presentations from Marc Smith. A few days before the conference started the #CAT10 twitter social network map looked like this: 26 July [...]

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Tags: Catalyst · Companies · Conference · Connected Action · Industry · Measuring social media · Network metrics and measures · NodeXL · Social Network Analysis · Social Theories and concepts · Social network · 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 [...]

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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

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

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

SNAP new network metrics into NodeXL – performance, speed, and scale updates and additions in NodeXL v.122

April 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments

+   The Stanford Network Analysis Platform (SNAP) (http://snap.stanford.edu) is a high performance library for calculating network metrics of potentially very large graphs. Working with SNAP author and Stanford Computer Science Professor Jure Leskovec, the NodeXL team is releasing a new update with expanded support for network metrics. With SNAP integrated into NodeXL we have [...]

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Tags: Network metrics and measures · NodeXL · Social Network Analysis

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 [...]

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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

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

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