Connected Action

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, Panayiotis Zaphiris, C.S. Ang, Derek Hansen
Benefits
This course provides an overview of Social Network Analysis (SNA) and demonstrates through [...]

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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
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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 (sociologists, psychologists, [...]

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After speaking at the Israel Internet Association conference February 22, I will speak at IBM Research in Haifa at an event co-sponsored by the University of Haifa Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the M.A. program in Sociology of Technology.  My hosts are Professor Gustavo Mesch from the university and Dr. Adam Perer from IBM [...]

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Time for another NodeXL update: sparklines!  Sparklines are a nifty and compact way of displaying a line chart in a small area.
Setting dynamic filters in NodeXL has been somewhat like rummaging around in the dark: without a way to see the distribution beneath a filter the user only knows the max and min values, not [...]

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In the most recent prior release of NodeXL we added new metrics that describe networks in terms of their number of components and the length of paths in those networks.  In this release we automate creation of histograms of network metrics.  It is useful to see the distribution of attributes like in-degree or betweenness to [...]

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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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NodeXL has updated again (v.1.0.1.109) with new network metrics.  The application now calculates path length data for your network, reporting the Maximum Geodesic Distance and the Average Geodesic Distance.  The list of overall metrics NodeXL creates includes: Vertices (the number of nodes in the graph), Unique Edges, Edges With Duplicates, Total Edges, Self-Loops (Edges that point back at the node [...]

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There are hundreds of conferences sponsored by the ACM on almost every topic related to computing.  In some cases the same person will publish a paper in more than one conference, creating a tie between them.  Below is a network map application that displays a collection of ACM conferences connected by this authorship tie: [...]

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Here is a recent slidedeck that provides an overview of NodeXL and social media network analysis.
2009 December NodeXL Overview
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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 in key locations.

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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 the [...]

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Video is now available from a panel hosted by the Women’s Affinity Group of O’Melveny & Myers’ Silicon Valley Office in Menlo Park on November 19th.  Along with Karla Spormann, President and CEO Tendo Communications, Martin Eberhard, Co-founder and former CEO Tesla Motors, Patrick Ewers, Founder, Mindmavin LLC.  We spoke about “Using Social Media to Grow [...]

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Starting in version 100 NodeXL has added a data import feature for extracting social networks from the associations between users and videos in YouTube.  The new social media network data spigot offers insights into the ways YouTube is socially structured.  This spigot joins the existing twitter, flickr, and email data import providers present in NodeXL. [...]

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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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On December 4th, I will be attending the Oxford Internet Institute’s Forum on Relationships and the Internet which will feature researchers focused on computer-mediated relationships.  Rather than being used primarily to access information, people often use networked computing to access people, creating or sustaining relationships with others.  There are many ways in which the Internet [...]

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Version 95 of NodeXL is hot off the compiler and we are pleased to announce several major features that create a social media network analysis dashboard.  From the NodeXL interface it is now possible to import networks from twitter, flickr, email, and a range of social network file formats.  Coming soon: support for more spigots [...]

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