Connected Action

Cover art and promotional flier for Analyzing social media networks with NodeXL: Insights from a connected world.

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NodeXL Network Server Frequently Asked Questions The NodeXL team has released a new version (v.1.0.1.126) with better support for collecting data from social media network sources, starting with Twitter.  The NodeXL Network Server program now ships in every NodeXL installation.  Tony, the lead developer on the team, created the following FAQ to explain how to [...]

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From this:to this:  in just a few clicks. Many network graphs contain disconnected smaller graphs, called “components”, within them. Most layout algorithms do a poor job of managing to group each component in a separate space. Instead, often, components are laid over one another, suggesting connections that are not real. A simple solution we have [...]

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The right click menu is a source of many good things in NodeXL. In the graph pane, the right click menu contains several options of possible interest. This is a map of the recent connections among twitter users who tweeted the string “NodeXL”.  Each profile photo is scaled to the number of followers that person has. [...]

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In the latest releases (since v.1.0.1.117) NodeXL allows users to pan, zoom, and scale the network graph in a more refined way. These new control elements allow for the selection of a set of nodes (arrow), the addition of another set of nodes to the selected collection (arrow with plus), and the removal of a [...]

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Time for another NodeXL update: sparklines!  Sparklines are a nifty and compact way of displaying a line chart in a small area. Setting dynamic filters in NodeXL has been somewhat like rummaging around in the dark: without a way to see the distribution beneath a filter the user only knows the max and min values, [...]

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