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Keyword Networks: create word association networks from text with NodeXL (with a macro)

January 29th, 2012 · 2 Comments

This is the collection of keyword pairs that appeared in two clusters of people who Tweeted about “Paul Ryan”, the Republican Congressman from Wisconsin who delivered the GOP rebuttal to the 2011 United States State of the Union Address.  This network illustrates the ways that certain word pairs appears only or predominantly in one cluster (colored [...]

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Tags: Foundation · Measuring social media · Network data providers (spigots) · Network metrics and measures · NodeXL · SMRF · Social Media · Social network · Twitter · Visualization

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 [...]

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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

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 [...]

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Tags: Conference · Measuring social media · Metrics · NodeXL · SMRF · Social Media · Social Media Research Foundation · Social network · Social Network Analysis · Visualization · WIN at NYU

iConference 2011 Wiki roles paper awarded best paper – University of Washington, Seattle, WA

April 24th, 2011 · 3 Comments

http://www.ischools.org/iConference11/2011index/ Our paper, Finding Social Roles in Wikipedia,  about the variety of  roles people perform in Wikis received the best paper award (along with 4 others) in a field of 86 papers.   The 2011 iConference accepted 86 papers, and had about 550 attendees. The paper is authored by: Howard T. Welser at Ohio University, [...]

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Tags: Conference · Connected Action · Data Mining · Foundation · Measuring social media · Metrics · NodeXL · Papers · Research · SMRF · Social Interaction · Social Media · Social network · Social Network Analysis · Social Theories and concepts · Sociology · Talks · University · Visualization · Washington

11 March 2011: San Francisco – Future of Networks event

March 5th, 2011 · No Comments

On 11 March 2011, I will be speaking at: Organizational and Social Media Network Analysis: Next Practices in Organizational Networks, Analytics and Media Along with Valdis Krebs, Chief Scientist, http://thenetworkthinkers.com/ Valdis will be speaking about Organizational Network Analysis - Introduction to Enterprise Networks, followed by a InFlow 3.1 Workshop: Social Network Analysis with InFlow 3.1 I will be speaking about Social Media Network Analysis with NodeXL. Preservation [...]

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Tags: Collective Action · Companies · Conference · Connected Action · Foundation · Industry · Measuring social media · Metrics · NodeXL · Research · SMRF · Social Interaction · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Sociology · Talks · Twitter · 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 [...]

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Tags: Data Mining · Interdisciplinary · Measuring social media · NodeXL · Research · Social Media · Social network · Sociology · Visualization

Talk at Israel Internet Association on February 22, 2010

March 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment

The Annual Meeting of the Israel Internet Association (http://www.isoc.org.il (English)) was held February 22-23 2010. I spoke at this year’s meeting: http://www.isoc.org.il/conf2010/agenda.php?lang=en Part 1 Part 2 The previous year’s conference website is at: http://www.isoc.org.il/conf2009/program.php The Israel Internet Association is the official Israeli Chapter of the Internet Society.  Their annual meeting is a central event of academics [...]

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Tags: Conference · Industry · Measuring social media · NodeXL · Research · Social Media · Social network · Talks

Book in progress: “Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World”

January 30th, 2010 · 4 Comments

Along with Professors Ben Shneiderman (Computer Science/Human Computer Interaction Lab) and Derek Hansen (College of Information Studies) from the University of Maryland I am writing and editing a book about analyzing the social media networks that form whenever people link or reply to one another, favorite, rate, read, or edit data about other people or their objects.  Social media [...]

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Tags: Book · NodeXL · Research · Social Media · Social network · Visualization

Slides: NodeXL overview: social media network analysis

December 17th, 2009 · No Comments

Here is a recent slidedeck that provides an overview of NodeXL and social media network analysis. 2009 December NodeXL Overview View more presentations from Marc Smith. The deck illustrates the use of NodeXL to extract several social media networks from systems like twitter and facebook to generate maps of communities and identify people and objects [...]

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Tags: Collective Action · Connected Action · Data Mining · NodeXL · Research · Social Media · Social network · 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

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

Conference: CIKM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

April 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Increasingly, technical conferences are featuring topics that make them look like sociology conferences! The upcoming Conference on Information and Knowledge Management describes itself as targeted at the “database, information retrieval, and knowledge management communities. The purpose of the conference is to identify challenging problems facing the development of future knowledge and information systems.” But the [...]

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Tags: Conference · Data Mining · Research · Social Media · Sociology