The recent Strata Conference in New York City gathered many leaders in big data, data mining, and information visualization.
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Link: www.flickr.com/photos/marc_smith/6203313170
Connections among the Twitter users who recently tweeted the word Strata when queried on September 20, 2011, scaled by numbers of followers (with outliers thresholded). Connections created when users reply, mention or follow one another.
See: strataconf.com/summit2011
Layout using the “Group Layout” composed of tiled bounded regions. Clusters calculated by the Clauset-Newman-Moore algorithm are also encoded by color.
A larger version of the image is here: www.flickr.com/photos/marc_smith/6203313170/sizes/l/in/ph…
Betweenness Centrality is defined here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrality#Betweenness_centrality
Clauset-Newman-Moore algorithm is defined here: pre.aps.org/abstract/PRE/v70/i6/e066111
Top most between users:
@timoreilly
@strataconf
@doctorow
@acroll
@ticbeat
@datacenter
@hnshah
@oreillymedia
@markmadsen
@unglobalpulse
Graph Metric: Value
Graph Type: Directed
Vertices: 1118
Unique Edges: 5813
Edges With Duplicates: 6522
Total Edges: 12335
Self-Loops: 1010
Connected Components: 9
Single-Vertex Connected Components: 8
Maximum Vertices in a Connected Component: 1110
Maximum Edges in a Connected Component: 12327
Maximum Geodesic Distance (Diameter): 6
Average Geodesic Distance: 2.575622
Graph Density: 0.00647018
NodeXL Version: 1.0.1.177
More NodeXL network visualizations are here: www.flickr.com/photos/marc_smith/sets/72157622437066929/
NodeXL is free and open and available from www.codeplex.com/nodexl
NodeXL is developed by the Social Media Research Foundation (www.smrfoundation.org) – which is dedicated to open tools, open data, and open scholarship.
The book, Analyzing social media networks with NodeXL: Insights from a connected world, is available from Morgan Kaufmann and from Amazon.