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The NodeXL team from the Social Media Research Foundation has released a web application that allows users to upload network files and download files other users have uploaded. The Social Media Research Foundation is dedicated to Open Tools, Open Data, and Open Scholarship. The NodeXL Graph Gallery on the Web enables the research community to collectively gather [...]

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Every network visualization should have a legend that explains what the colors, edge widths, and filters are that define the network graph. NodeXL automatically generates a network legend and displays it when the Graph Elements menu is opened: And the “Legend” option is selected. This will place a legend at the bottom of the visualization [...]

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NodeXL allows users to gather vertices into named collections called “Groups”.  This is handy whenever the entities in the network are made up of different types or an algorithm has divided the network into sub-regions based on how densely some vertices connect to one another.  The Groups menu is found in the NodeXL>Analysis menu: Since version [...]

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Recently, we’ve been setting out to set up a new way to set the option settings in NodeXL.  Now we have added a new feature to NodeXL (v.166): savable, selectable configuration option settings files. This may seem dull but this feature may have a big impact on the ease of use of NodeXL.  This may [...]

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NodeXL now (v.166) offers users a set of keyboard shortcuts that can speed up your routine network layout tasks. After you click in the graph pane, a number of keyboard shortcuts are now available for functions that had previously been available in the visualization pane’s right-click menu. Now, you can press: Ctrl+A to select all [...]

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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 [...]

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The eruption of Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland has created disruption of air traffic around the world and particularly through Northern Europe.  A similar eruption of tweets has followed, focused around a series of hastags including “#ashtag”, “#ashcloud”, and “#volcano”. The #ashtag network is highlighted by well known technology bloggers. In contrast the map for the tag [...]

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The Twitter Chirp conference attracted tweets from many technology leaders and bloggers.  Here is a ranked list of the top most “between” people who tweeted the term “chirp” in the last day. A complete social network map, with edge thickness proportional to the number of network connections (follows, replies, mentions) that link the two participants [...]

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The CHI 2010 conference is well underway in Atlanta this week and lots of people are tweeting the #CHI2010 hash tag.  An updated NodeXL map of the connections among people who use the #CHI2010 tag is below: This is the network map of follows, replies, and mentions relationships among Twitter users who mentioned “CHI2010″ as [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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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I attended the “Studying Society In A Digital World” conference at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University.  They just posted most of the conference slides.  I took some pictures and have inserted them next to the link for slides where I had a picture (or a good one!).  The conference was very [...]

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Kate Niederhoffer and I presented a combined view of social media from the perspectives of social psychology and sociology.  Kate applies a linguistic background to analyze the content of social media while I bring social network analysis to bear on the structures created by connections created by links and replies. Beyond Buzz – Web 2.0 [...]

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