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Conference: NodeXL and Social Media Networks tutorial at CHI 2010

April 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: CHI · Conference · NodeXL · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Sociology · Talks

How do airline twitter network maps compare? United v. Delta Airlines mapped in NodeXL

April 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: Companies · Connected Action · Industry · Measuring social media · Metrics · Network clusters and communities · Network data providers (spigots) · Network metrics and measures · Network visualization layouts · NodeXL · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Social network · Video · Visualization

Talk on Social Media at the University of Porto, Portugal, March 26th, 2010

March 20th, 2010 · No Comments

Along with my colleague Eduarda Mendes-Rodriguez I will be speaking at the University of Porto next Friday, March 26th. Hands-on Workshop – Social Media Network Analysis in NodeXL This workshop provides an overview of Social Network Analysis (SNA) and its application to social media. The network or directed graph is a common structure in a wide range [...]

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Tags: Companies · Connected Action · Industry · Porto · Social Interaction · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Social Roles · Sociology · Technology

Call for Papers – ICWSM 2010 – Washington, D.C. May 23-26

December 14th, 2009 · No Comments

Here is the Call for Papers for the Fourth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-10) May 23-26, 2010 George Washington University, Washington, DC Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence IMPORTANT DATES: Tutorial Proposals: December 1, 2009 Paper Submission: January 8, 2010 Poster/Demo Submission: January 8, 2010 Paper Acceptance: [...]

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Tags: Conference · Data Mining · Ecology · Interdisciplinary · Measuring social media · Metrics · Papers · Research · Social Interaction · Social Media · Social network · Sociology · Talks · Technology

Workshop December 15th: Create your own twitter social network map

November 28th, 2009 · No Comments

On December 15th in Mountain View, California join me for lunch and a workshop on creating social media network diagrams!  We will provide a hands-on guide to creating maps of the collections of connections among people who tweet about various brands, topics, events, and concepts. Bring your own Windows/Office 2007 machine and we will set you [...]

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Tags: NodeXL · Social network · Sociology · Talks · Twitter · Visualization

Paper (using NodeXL!): Tweet the Debates: Understanding Community Annotation of Uncollected Sources

September 25th, 2009 · No Comments

A recent paper makes use of NodeXL to create illustrations of data from connections among twitter users drawn from the United States presidential debates in October 2008.  One illustration highlights the major clusters in the network. Tweet the Debates: Understanding Community Annotation of Uncollected Sources Authors: Shamma, D.A.; Kennedy, L.; Churchill, E.F. Source: ACM Multimedia, [...]

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Tags: Collective Action · Measuring social media · Metrics · NodeXL · Papers · Politics · Social Interaction · Social Media · Social network · Sociology · Twitter