Connected Action

NodeXL allows collections of vertices in a network to be gathered together into a “Group”.  Groups have several properties: groups can be selected vertices in selected groups can be operated on as a set groups can be collapsed or expanded network metrics can be calculated for each group groups can be plotted within bounded regions [...]

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    NodeXL offers a range of shapes to represent vertices, including: circle, square, triangle, and diamond in filled and unfilled forms. Vertices can also be represented as images. Edges can also have styles:  

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Once you start creating and collecting network graphs you may find you can build a significant collection: hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands of graphs may result from a study or on-going monitoring project. In a series of features in the NodeXL project we have enabled a workflow for constructing many social media  network graphs [...]

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As mobile devices become a major method for authoring and consuming social media, location data is increasingly a part of many posts, tweets, check-ins, and messages.  Many Twitter clients, for example, can add the user’s current latitude and longitude to the metadata associated with a tweet.  Other systems like Facebook Places, Google Latitude and Foursquare [...]

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Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues, (University of Porto) from the NodeXL team has created a sample network file that attempts to highlight the functions and applications of the social media network analysis toolkit.  The latest release of NodeXL now contains this sample file: In this map nodes represent the major feature groups and functions in the NodeXL application. [...]

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On Saturday 11 December 2010 A Symposium on Wikileaks and Internet Freedom (http://personaldemocracy.com/pdfleaks) was held in New York City. I did not attend in person, but the event was streamed live.  A colleague of mine, Zeynep Tufekci (@techsoc), a sociologist from the University of Maryland ebiquity group, did attend and spoke on the second panel of [...]

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I have a MacBookPro.  I can run Windows very nicely using various Virtual Machine products like VMWare’s Fusion or the free and open VirtualBox.  In these virtual machines I can run Windows and Office and then NodeXL.  It’s pretty neat to see Windows inside the Mac OS window.  I am always amazed that it works [...]

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On November 8th, 2010 I spoke in Seoul, Korea at the 3rd International Conference on Digital Culture on the topic of “Smart Society and Civic Culture“. 2010-November-8-NIA – Smart Society and Civic Culture – Marc Smith View more presentations from Marc Smith. Several of my colleagues also spoke at the event, including Leslie Tkach-Kawasaki from [...]

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I spoke at the Social Tech 2010 conference in San Jose on October 26, 2010. The event focused on social media technologies and practices in the business to business space. I spoke on a panel about the application of social network analysis to social media to illustrate the ways SNA can illuminate the shape and key [...]

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I visited the SONIC group at Northwestern University for a talk about social media networks on October 22, 2010.

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CONNECTING THE DOTS A Network Visualization Symposium http://networks.iq.harvard.edu/ Date: October 22, 2010 The first CONNECTING THE DOTS symposium on network visualization organized by Michael Barnett, Jukka-Pekka Onnela, and Samuel Arbesman of The Christakis Lab at Harvard was held on October 22, 2010. Keynote speakers: Alessandro Vespignani, Professor of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington Ben Fry, co-developer of Processing and data [...]

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I spoke at the University of Michigan, School of Information on October 19th, 2010 about “Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Mapping and Measuring Social Media Networks to Find Key Positions and Structures“. I demonstrated the ways social network data sets can be extracted from social media services like Facebook, Twitter, email, YouTube, and [...]

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I am coming to understand what is interesting in any particular network visualization by looking at many network visualizations. Using NodeXL, I have made several maps of  social media networks of people talking about several topics of interest from current events to conferences I attend.  You can find a collection of them on flickr. I [...]

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I returned to South Africa to attend the 2010 edition of Mobile Web Africa, a conference focused on the remarkable adoption and development of mobile networks and technology in Africa. The conference took place on 29th & 30th September 2010 in Johannesburg, South Africa. I presented a workshop on social media network analysis, see: http://www.mobilewebafrica.com/marc-smith-workshop.php [...]

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I will present a workshop on NodeXL at the UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center‘s Community Engagement and Social Network Analysis workshop on September 23rd, 2010. Registration. CTSA Community Engagement and Social Network Analysis Workshop September 22-24, 2010 University of California Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center Sacramento, California OBJECTIVES Understand the basic concepts, [...]

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