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Sociology and the Internet, Social Media, and Mobile Social Software

VIDEO: NodeXL demo from Eduarda from Microsoft Research Cambridge at EU Innovation Day event

May 15th, 2009 · 3 Comments

My colleague, Eduarda Mendes-Rodriguez, recently demoed NodeXL at the Microsoft EU Innovation Day event in Brussels, Belgium.  She illustrates the value of network analysis in general with a social network diagram representing the voting patterns of United States Senators in 2007.  The results show the clear party-line clustering and the presence of a few fence sitters, [...]

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Tags: Measuring social media · Metrics · NodeXL · Research · Social Media · Social Roles · Social network · Sociology · Talks · Video · Visualization

Farewell to Microsoft after ten great years

September 29th, 2008 · 5 Comments

After ten years at Microsoft Research I have decided it is time to move on.  My time at MSR has been a remarkable one.  I have had the opportunity to work with very smart and focused people intent on making technical strides on many defining aspects of computing.  It has been a pleasure to work [...]

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Tags: Mobile Devices · Mobile Social Software · Research · Shameless self-promotion · Social Media · Sociology · Visualization