Interested in applying social network methods to better understand the structure of your business or organization? In collaboration with Optimice, I will teach a workshop on Social Network Analysis for enterprises, organizations, and businesses using NodeXL. Self-paced e-learning (4 hours) Introduction to Social/Organisational Network Analysis Network patterns and metrics Software tools for network analysis Managing [...]
2012 Monthly Online Practitioner Course in Organizational Network Analysis with NodeXL
January 27th, 2012 · No Comments
Tags: Measuring social media · Metrics · NodeXL · Research · Social Interaction · Social Media · Social network · Social Network Analysis · Social Roles · Social Theories and concepts · Sociology · Talks · Visualization
December 15, 2011 – @IFTF NodeXL & Gephi – Social Media Mapping Open House
December 7th, 2011 · No Comments
Online Ticketing powered by Eventbrite NodeXL Event at IFTF, Thursday, December 15, 2011 Along with the Social Media Research Foundation, the Institute for the Future is co-hosting a meetup for those interested in mapping social media networks. Users of tools like NodeXL and Gephi (among others) are welcome to join us for an evening devoted to collecting, [...]
Tags: Conference · Foundation · Gephi · IFTF · Measuring social media · Metrics · NodeXL · Research · SMRF · Social Media · Social Media Research Foundation · Social network · Social Network Analysis · Sociology · Talks · Visualization
November 28 and 30: Mastering Social Media – Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa
November 18th, 2011 · No Comments
Mastering Social Media 2011 is a workshop scheduled for November 28 and 30 in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa. My partner, Walter Pike, is a Marketing Maven and Founder of PiKE | New Marketing (www.pike.co.za) and the founder of the Digital Academy www.digitalacademy.co.za He blogs at walterpike.com. Mastering Social Media will give you practical tools on how to plan, [...]
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Contrasting teaparty and occupywallstreet twitter networks
November 16th, 2011 · No Comments
Both teaparty and occupywallstreet are actively discussed in twitter. This map of connections among people who tweeted Teaparty starts on 11/15/2011 14:22 UTC and ends on 11/15/2011 17:23, a total of 3 hours and 1 minute of traffic. The Teaparty data set contained 1,533 tweets, replies and mentions. Blue edges are connections created by replies [...]
Tags: Collective Action · Connected Action · Foundation · Measuring social media · Network clusters and communities · Network metrics and measures · Network visualization layouts · NodeXL · Politics · Research · Social Media · Social Media Research Foundation · Social network · Social Network Analysis · Social Roles · Sociology · Technology · Visualization
Event: LocalSocialSummit11 and Social Media Research Foundation Reception November 10th, 2011
October 28th, 2011 · No Comments
& On November 9th and 10th, 2011 the LocalSocialSummit11 will be held in London. On Thursday morning, November 10th, Doctor Bernie Hogan from the Oxford Internet Institute and member of the Social Media Research Foundation will speak on the topic: Insights: Social Network Analysis On Facebook Data, with a local twist Thursday at 3:45 I [...]
Tags: Conference · Foundation · Measuring social media · NodeXL · Oxford · Research · SMRF · Social Media · Social Media Research Foundation · Social network · Talks · University · Visualization
October 19-20, 2011: NYC – Predictive Analytics World: Network Maps for End Users: Collect, Analyze, Visualize and Communicate Network Insights with Zero Coding
October 17th, 2011 · No Comments
I presented on social media network analysis on October 20, 2011 in New York City at Predictive Analytics World. A map of the connections among the people tweeting about the #Pawcon hashtag is below. Network Maps for End Users: Collect, Analyze, Visualize and Communicate Network Insights with Zero Coding Abstract: Networks are everywhere except [...]
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ThreadMill 0.1: Social Accounting for Message Thread Collections
October 16th, 2011 · 2 Comments
The Social Media Research Foundation is pleased to announce the immediate availability of ThreadMill 0.1. ThreadMill is a free and open application that consumes message thread data and produces reports about each author, thread, forum, and board along with visualizations of the patterns of connection and activity. ThreadMill is written in Ruby, and depends on [...]
Tags: AuthorLine · Collective Action · Connected Action · Data Mining · Foundation · Measuring social media · Metrics · Morningside-Analytics · Scatter Plot · SMRF · Social Interaction · Social Media · Social Media Research Foundation · Social Network Analysis · Social Roles · Social Theories and concepts · Sociology · ThreadMill · Time Series · Treemap · Visualization · Web Application
#AOIR NodeXL SNA Map for 10 October 2011
October 11th, 2011 · No Comments
The Association of Internet Researchers conference is occurring now in Seattle, Washington. http://ir12.aoir.org/ These are the connections among the Twitter users who recently tweeted the word AOIR when queried on October 10, 2011, scaled by numbers of followers (with outliers thresholded). Connections created when users reply, mention or follow one another. See: ir12.aoir.org/ Top most [...]
Tags: AOIR · Conference · Measuring social media · Network metrics and measures · Network visualization layouts · NodeXL · SMRF · Social Media · Social Media Research Foundation · Social Network Analysis · Social Roles · Visualization
SocialnetImporter for NodeXL: Import your Facebook ego-networks
October 10th, 2011 · 2 Comments
The Social Network Importer for NodeXL is a new graph data provider for NodeXL which enables each user to directly download and import their Facebook networks into NodeXL. With this release, you can now download your own Facebook ego-network for analysis and visualization in NodeXL and other network analysis tools that can import GraphML. Future releases will extract networks from Fan Pages [...]
Tags: Aachen · APIs and File Formats · Facebook · Foundation · Measuring social media · Network data providers (spigots) · NodeXL · SMRF · Social Media · Social Media Research Foundation · Social network · Social Network Analysis · Visualization
#occupywallstreet NodeXL SNA Map for 10 October 2011
October 10th, 2011 · No Comments
#occupywallstreet continues to be an active topic of social media traffic. Here is the updated map of connections among people who recently tweeted #occupywallstreet: These are the connections among the Twitter users who recently tweeted the word OccupyWallStreet when queried on October 10, 2011, scaled by numbers of followers (with outliers thresholded). Connections created when [...]
Tags: Collective Action · Measuring social media · Network clusters and communities · Network visualization layouts · NodeXL · Politics · SMRF · Social Interaction · Social Media · Social Media Research Foundation · Social network · Social Network Analysis · Social Theories and concepts · Visualization
#occupywallstreet NodeXL SNA Twitter Map for 8 October 2011
October 8th, 2011 · 1 Comment
The #Occupywallstreet movement is growing and lots of activity is taking place in social media. Here is a map of the connections among the people who recently tweeted the term “#occupywallstreet” on 8 October 2011. Link: www.flickr.com/photos/marc_smith/6225446144/ Each user is scaled by numbers of followers (with outliers thresholded). Connections created when users reply, mention or [...]
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WIN 2011 NodeXL SNA Twitter Map
October 3rd, 2011 · No Comments
The Workshop on Information in Networks 2011 was held at NYU September 30-October 1st. Over the course of the event a number of people tweeted using the hashtag #win2011. These are the connections among the Twitter users who recently tweeted the word win2011 when queried on October 3, 2011, scaled by numbers of followers [...]
Tags: Conference · Measuring social media · Metrics · NodeXL · SMRF · Social Media · Social Media Research Foundation · Social network · Social Network Analysis · Visualization · WIN at NYU
Strata Conf: Mapping the connections among Twitter Users
October 2nd, 2011 · No Comments
The recent Strata Conference in New York City gathered many leaders in big data, data mining, and information visualization. Link: www.flickr.com/photos/marc_smith/6203313170 Connections among the Twitter users who recently tweeted the word Strata when queried on September 20, 2011, scaled by numbers of followers (with outliers thresholded). Connections created when users reply, mention or follow [...]
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HealthTap NodeXL SNA Map for 20110928
September 30th, 2011 · No Comments
HealthTap is a website that connects people with medical questions to health providers with answers. This is a map of the connections among the Twitter users who recently tweeted the word HealthTap when queried on September 28, 2011, scaled by numbers of followers (with outliers thresholded). Connections created when users reply, mention or follow one [...]
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A bundle of new features for NodeXL v.177: Edges++
September 14th, 2011 · No Comments
Luka Potkonjak has contributed a new feature to NodeXL: edge bundling. Following on the heels of the release of curved edges in version. 175, we now provide a way to gather parallel edges together into “bundles” that travel together until they diverge close to their destinations. The effect is visually striking. Here is a before [...]
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