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 [...]
NodeXL Graph Gallery on the web: Collectively Authored Archives of Networks
September 7th, 2011 · No Comments
Tags: Foundation · Measuring social media · Network Data Archives · Network data providers (spigots) · NodeXL · SMRF · Social Media · Social Media Research Foundation · Social network · User interface · Visualization · Web Application
The Myth of Selective Sharing: Why all bits will eventually be public (or be destroyed)
July 25th, 2011 · 5 Comments
Bits exist along a gradient from private to public. But in practice they only move in one direction. Thus, there are two destinies for information: public or oblivion. Information wants to be copied. This is not the same as information wanting to be free (or expensive), or information wanting *you* to be free. Information probably [...]
Tags: Data Mining · Ecology · Location · Measuring social media · Medical sensors · Metrics · Politics · Privacy · Sensors · Social Interaction · Social Media · Social Theories and concepts · Sociology · Technology · Visualization
Latest version of NodeXL gains Web 1.0 Hyperlink Network Importer: VOSON “spigot”
September 7th, 2010 · No Comments
+ This is a milestone for NodeXL! Prof. Robert Ackland from the Australian Demographic & Social Research Institute (ADSRI) at the Australian National University has created a data provider for NodeXL based on the VOSON (Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks) Project. With the VOSON Data Provider Plugin for NodeXL, you can now access [...]
Tags: Data Mining · Interdisciplinary · Measuring social media · NodeXL · Research · Social Media · Social network · Sociology · Visualization
How to schedule the creation of a network with NodeXL and Windows Task Scheduler
August 23rd, 2010 · 6 Comments
NodeXL has a number of data importers that can create a network of connections from social media data sources like Twitter, YouTube, flickr, email, and the WWW (along with a number of other data import formats like GraphML, UCINet, CSV, and other Excel workbooks with data). To create a network you just select the search [...]
Tags: Connected Action · Measuring social media · Metrics · Network data providers (spigots) · NodeXL · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Sociology · Twitter
May 28th, 2010 – Workshop: Government Applications of Social Media Networks and Communities, University of Maryland, Human Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL)
May 27th, 2010 · No Comments
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/soh/ The HCIL Government Applications of Social Media Networks & Communities Workshop, as part of the 27th Annual Human Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL) Symposium, at the University of Maryland, examined how social media can be systematically applied to increase civic participation on national priorities. When: Friday, May 28, 2010, 9:30am-4:00pm Where: CSIC Building, UMD, College Park Who: Government thought [...]
Tags: Conference · Connected Action · Maryland · Measuring social media · NodeXL · Research · Social Media · Social network · Social Network Analysis · Sociology · Talks · University · Visualization
Data Bank or Data Pimp: choosing the future of social media repositories
May 6th, 2010 · No Comments
or ? Are social media sites data banks, secure repositories of personal assets, or data pimps, soliciting intimate exposure for profit? I think these services need to choose. I notice that the setting for who can see what in various systems is in flux. I can set something to private today and may have to reset [...]
Tags: Companies · Data Mining · Facebook · Industry
Bernie Hogan’s Facebook Social Network Data Provider and Visualization toolkit
April 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment
My colleague at the Oxford Internet Institute, Bernie Hogan, is working on tools that collect personal Facebook network data and visualize the connections among your friends. These tools now interoperate with NodeXL through the GraphML XML file format. Here is the new link: http://namegen.oii.ox.ac.uk/fb/downloadNet.php?type=graphml Here is an example: http://twitpic.com/9rvfq It provides a good illustration of the [...]
Tags: Data Mining · Facebook · Measuring social media · Social network · Social Roles · Sociology · Visualization
Meeting: Saving Our Present for the Future: Personal Archiving 2010, February 16th at the Internet Archive
February 12th, 2010 · No Comments
I will attend an interesting discussion organized by Jeff Ubois on February 16th at the Internet Archive in San Francisco. Saving Our Present for the Future: Personal Archiving 2010 From family photographs and personal papers to health and financial information, vital personal records are becoming digital. At the same time, creation and capture of new [...]
Tags: Conference · Network data providers (spigots) · Social Media · Social network · Talks · Technology
Node and Venn: NodeXL can create Venn Diagrams!
January 27th, 2010 · No Comments
NodeXL updated starting with version 1.05 with features that make it fairly easy to create basic “Venn Diagrams”. A Venn diagram is a familiar way to illustrate the overlap (or lack thereof) of two or more “sets” of things. There are some very amusing Venn diagrams out there! This one in particular made me laugh [...]
Tags: Euler Diagrams · NodeXL · Sets · Venn Diagrams · Visualization
flickr user, tag, and photo networks are now available in NodeXL
December 13th, 2009 · No Comments
NodeXL has had a rudimentary flickr tag network data spigot for some time but we have just added a number of features to this data importer that makes it much more useful. You can now select the number of network levels to include, an optional sample image file can be included for each tag, and [...]
Tags: flickr · Measuring social media · Metrics · NodeXL · Social Media · Social network · Visualization






























