On the theme of instrumenting the interaction order, here is Tanzeem Choudhury (from Dartmouth) giving a talk titled: “Using Sensors to Make Sense of People: Inferring the Micro and Macro Level Properties of Social Networks from Mobile Sensor Data” which she delivered March 2, 2009 as part of the Program on Networked Governance CCCSN Seminar.
This is a very informative lecture at Harvard from Tanzeem describing her Dartmouth group’s work to create, deploy and interpret the data from mobile inter-personal sensors.
NodeXL - a sample of user goals and research interests as a Wordle cloud
Thanks to inspiration from Adam Perer, here is a Wordle.net picture of some of feedback text — a rough presentation of the ideas, topics and research goals submitted by a collection of attendees of a recent lecture on NodeXL at Harvard. A recording of the slides and audio from the talk is available from the Harvard Program on Networked Governance website and also on the Government Innovators Network website.
A copy of the video that does not require registration is available here.
As people registered for the lecture some took the time to share their interests in network analysis and the NodeXL project. The key themes and topics from these statements focus on studying the social network of various populations of interest including (in no particular order): governments, enterprises, migrants, terrorists, innovators, politicians, corporations, criminals, research literature, sick people and online communities.
Find network correlates of the adoption of innovation
This feed back will shape the kinds of features we explore in the NodeXL project. What are your goals for exploring network data sets? What questions are you trying to answer? What kinds of network structures are of greatest interest? How can NodeXL best support that exploration?
