May 1st, 2015 at LSU: NodeXL social media networks talk at the “Telling Stories and Using Visuals for Coastal Environmental Communication” workshop

02MarMay 7, 2015 By Marc Smith

The National Association of Science Writers has funded a workshop at Louisiana State University, on “Telling Stories and Using Visuals for Coastal Environmental Communication” on Friday, May 1, 2015. I will speak during a session on “Social Media Best Practices and Mapping for Science & Environmental Communication,” to give workshop attendees both theoretical and also a practical tutorial on using NodeXL and mapping social networks in the interest of effective science communication.

More information about the workshop can be found at https://showmethecoast2015.wordpress.com/.

For example, this is a network of connections among people who tweeted about Scientific Communication:

April 20, 2015: NodeXL talk at the Business Analytics Forum at the University of Tennessee

02MarMay 7, 2015 By Marc Smith

Business Analytics Forum hosted by the Business Analytics and Statistics Department at the University of Tennessee on April 20, 2015 will feature a talk on social media network analysis using the free and open NodeXL add-in for the popular Excel spreadsheet.

You can read more about the department and some of their initiatives here: http://issuu.com/utcba/docs/archwayswinter2014-15.finalpdf.forw/29?e=0

February 27, 2015 – Napa Area NodeXL Meetup – North Bay Networkers!

10FebMay 7, 2015 By Marc Smith

Hello North Bay Area network analysis fans!

Join the NodeXL users meetup at the Napa Embassy Suites hotel (1075 California Boulevard, Napa, California, 94559, USA) on the 27th of February at 6pm.

Meet other network, social network, and social media network researchers and practitioners.

Hear about the latest and upcoming updates in the free and open NodeXL application.

Connect to the NodeXL network! Please RSVP using the form below:

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March 30-31, 2015 – Predictive Analytics World San Francisco – Think Link: Connecting to the Power of Social Networks with no Programing with NodeXL

04FebMay 7, 2015 By Marc Smith

There will be a one day crash course on all things “big data” at the upcoming San Francisco Predictive Analytics World conference on Monday, March 30th, 2015. Get the Big Data big picture with a day of introduction to the major concepts, methods, challenges, and best practices related to leveraging large volumes of information.

There will be a session on social media network analysis using NodeXL at the conference as well.

http://www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com/sanfrancisco/2015/agenda.php#day1-1120b
11:20am-12:05pm

Track 2: Social Data
Think Link: Connecting to the Power of Social Networks with no Programing with NodeXL

Networks are collections of connections — they are everywhere once you start to look. Learn how to collect, analyze, visualize, and publish insights into connected populations. Using the free and open NodeXL addin for Excel, anyone who can make a pie chart can now make a network chart. Create insights into social media, collaboration, organizations, markets, and other connected structures with just a few clicks. Easily publish reports with visualizations and content analysis. Apply social network analysis to your own brands, email, discussions or web sites.

VIDEO: SNA for fundraising and development webinar hosted by the Prospect Research Institute

05JunMay 7, 2015 By Marc Smith

I participated in a webinar hosted by the Prospect Research Institute. We discussed the ways that NodeXL can simplify the task of collecting social media and social network data. The tool generates easy to understand reports that highlight insights into connected structures.

The slides associated with the talk can be found here:

2014 TheNextWeb-Mapping connections with NodeXL from Marc Smith

Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World

May 19-23, 2014: International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems, Minneapolis, Minnesota

11MarMay 7, 2015 By Marc Smith

Third International Symposium on

Collaboration, Social Computing, New Media and Networks
(SoMNet 2014)
Call for
Papers and Participation
As part of the
2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems
(CTS 2014)
May 19-23, 2014
The Commons Hotel
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

In Cooperation with
ACM, IEEE, and IFIP

May 7-9, 2014 – SQLPASS – San Jose – Social media network maps in Excel with NodeXL

10MarMay 7, 2015 By Marc Smith

I will present a talk at the 2014 SQL PASS Business Analytics Conference in San Jose on May 8th.

The talk will focus on free and open tools for creating network maps and reports that can illuminate the landscape of social media.

The graph represents a network of 633 Twitter users whose tweets in the requested date range contained “sqlpass”, or who were replied to or mentioned in those tweets. The tweets in the network were tweeted over the 15-day, 2-hour, 48-minute period from Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 00:26 UTC to Wednesday, 12 March 2014 at 03:15 UTC.

There is an edge for each “replies-to” relationship in a tweet, an edge for each “mentions” relationship in a tweet, and a self-loop edge for each tweet that is not a “replies-to” or “mentions”.

The graph’s vertices were grouped by cluster using the Clauset-Newman-Moore cluster algorithm. The graph was laid out using the Harel-Koren Fast Multiscale layout algorithm.

The edge colors are based on edge weight values. The edge widths are based on edge weight values. The edge opacities are based on edge weight values. The vertex sizes are based on followers values. The vertex opacities are based on followers values.

Top 10 Vertices, Ranked by Betweenness Centrality:
@sqlpass
@laertesqldba
@nikoneugebauer
@karlakay22
@jenstirrup
@retracement
@grrl_geek
@sqlrockstar
@markvsql
@sqlservermag

Top URLs in Tweet in Entire Graph:
http://www.sqlpass.org/ss2014launch/Webinars.aspx
http://www.sqlpass.org/summit/2014/Speakers/CallForSpeakers.aspx
http://sqlsaturday.com/287/schedule.aspx
http://bi.sqlpass.org/
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5759204879042322946
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2383471085904007682
http://paper.li/PASSAppDev/1391708680
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3165768110532010497
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2196441958679840002
http://www.linkedin.com/slink?code=bNfBsHy

Top Hashtags in Tweet in Entire Graph:
#sqlpass
#sqlserver
#sql
#sqlsatexeter
#sqlpass_de
#sqlsaturday
#sqlsatvienna
#sqlsatportugal
#msbi
#sqlsatmadison

April 2-4, 2014 Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling and Prediction Conference in Washington D.C.

06MarMay 7, 2015 By Marc Smith

I will present a tutorial on social media network analysis at the 2014 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction (SBP14)
April 2 – April 4, 2014
UCDC Center
Washington DC, USA

The 2014 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction (SBP14) is a multidisciplinary conference with a single paper track and poster session. SBP invites a small number of high quality tutorials and nationally recognized keynote speakers.

The SBP conference provides a forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government agencies to exchange ideas on current challenges in social computing, behavioral modeling and prediction, and on state-of-the-art methods and best practices being adopted to tackle these challenges. Interactive events at the conference are designed to promote cross-disciplinary contact.

Social Computing harnesses the power of computational methods to study social behavior within a social context. Behavioral Cultural modeling refers to representing behavior and culture in the abstract, and is a convenient and powerful way to conduct virtual experiments and scenario analysis. Both social computing and behavioral cultural modeling are techniques designed to achieve a better understanding of complex behaviors, patterns, and associated outcomes of interest. Moreover, these approaches are inherently interdisciplinary; subsystems and system components exist at multiple levels of analysis (i.e., “cells to societies”) and across multiple disciplines, from engineering and the computational sciences to the social and health sciences.

StrataConf 2014 – February 11-13, Santa Clara – Network Science Made Simple: SNA for pie chart makers

03FebMay 7, 2015 By Marc Smith

I will present at the 2014 Strata Conference in Santa Clara, CA on February 11, 2013.

Network Science Made Simple: SNA for pie chart makers

Marc Smith (Connected Action Consulting Group)

2:20pm Wednesday, 02/12/2014

Data Science
Ballroom ABNetworks are everywhere, particularly in social media. Understanding networks can quickly reveal the key people, groups, and topics that matter most. But the tools to collect, analyze, visualize, and gain insights into connected structures have remained complex. Now the free and open NodeXL application makes network analysis tasks as easy as making a pie chart. The Network Overview Discovery and Exploration add-in for Excel (2007, 2010, 2013) extends the familiar spreadsheet, enabling users to easily access networks from a range of data sources including Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, email, message boards, Wikis, blogs, and other repositories of connections. With simple automation tools, NodeXL users can calculate a range of network metrics, create a visualization, and generate a report highlighting key people, groups, and top URLs, hashtags, words and word pairs used in the discussion network. Network maps have revealed many of the hidden structures of social media, defining the major differences in the shapes and structures created as people link to one another.

I will also hold Office Hours at the event:

Office Hour with Marc Smith (Team NodeXL)

Marc Smith (Connected Action Consulting Group)
3:00pm Wednesday, 02/12/2014
Office Hour
Table A

If you have questions on social network analysis, meet with Marc to talk about:

NodeXL and related network analysis and visualization tools
How to collect, store, analyze, visualize, summarize and publish social network reports with just a few clicks (and no coding)
How to identify key influential people and subgroups within a conversation network
How to apply social network analysis to social media marketing
How to apply organizational network analysis to enterprise collaboration

Above is a map of the connections among the people who recently tweeted the term “strataconf” over the 7-day, 19-hour, 38-minute period from Sunday, 26 January 2014 at 21:53 UTC to Monday, 03 February 2014 at 17:32 UTC. The key people in the network at this point are:

@strataconf
@oreillymedia
@thedatacrunch
@dataiku
@alpinedatalabs
@sasanalytics
@zettaforce
@bigdata
@josemariasiota
@tibco

You can make these types of maps with just a few clicks using NodeXL.

I hope to see you in Santa Clara!

DC on Nov 13 at 8:30AM: IREX Social Network Analysis: Influence and Impact Beyond Likes and Retweets

05NovMay 7, 2015 By Marc Smith

I will participate in a workshop at IREX in Washington D.C. on November 13, 2013.

The workshop is titled Social Network Analysis: Influence and Impact Beyond Likes and Retweets. We will focus on the applications of social network analysis for development efforts, exploring how SNA can:

Create viral and influential advocacy and political campaigns
Find business and employment connections for entrepreneurs and youth
Identify hidden disease vectors and stop new infection pathways
Break circles of government corruption and graft
Target existing informal support resources for disaster response

The workshop will be facilitated by Wayan Vota along with three social network analysis researchers:

This Deep Dive will be an active event. We will mix thoughtful discussions with experiential activities, building social capital while we learn about social networks. Participants are encouraged to submit social media topics in advance so maps and reports can be generated for the event.

Note that this event is in-person only, so please RSVP now to attend.