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A short review of Connected China: A visualization of elite social networks in China

2013-11-01, eScience seminar. A short review of Connected China: A visualization of elite social networks in China. Xiaogang Ma TWC/RPI. This presentation. Features of Connected China Technologies in its development Potential updates. Connected China. http://connectedchina.reuters.com

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A short review of Connected China: A visualization of elite social networks in China

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  1. 2013-11-01, eScience seminar A short review of Connected China: A visualization of elite social networks in China Xiaogang Ma TWC/RPI

  2. This presentation • Features of Connected China • Technologies in its development • Potential updates

  3. Connected China • http://connectedchina.reuters.com • “tracks and visualizes the people, institutions and relationships that form China's elite power structure” • Launched: Feb. 2013

  4. Features • “[Connected China] provides deep insight into China’s new generation of leaders and features the best of Reuters’ coverage in data, text, photos and video.” • Optimized for iPad 2+ and Chrome and Safari

  5. Features of Connected China General information Circles of power Roles of power Paths to power News

  6. Families: • Princelings • Golden Sons-in-Law • Coalitions • Shanghai Clique • Tuanpai powerful family connections play a crucial role in all spheres of society Party leadership is largely divided between two informal coalitions

  7. Relationships with party elders • Accumulation of guanxi • Guanxi: the accumulated social capital A number of former leaders maintain their political influence through extensive social connections and the protégés they have promoted over the years

  8. Knowing the background information of families, coalitions, relationships with party elders will help understand the social power of an individual Click here for literal explanation Click here to zoom in

  9. The Communist Party of China • “collective leadership” by the Politburo Standing Committee (The Seven) • Party general secretary Xi Jinping is now only the “first among equals” in the seven-member body

  10. The three pillars of Chinese politics • Party, State, and Military

  11. Show details of a institution and its members

  12. The path to political power • In China, the path to political power is a structured ascent

  13. Comparing the ages of political leaders

  14. The impact of retirement ages • For example, Zhou Yongkang followed a similar path as Xi, but could never reach top leadership due to the retirement cutoff

  15. Comparison among multiple individuals

  16. Working group of Connected China • Editor + Project Leader: Irene Jay Liu • Production Heads: Yolanda Ma, Malik Yusuf • Lead Writer: Chris Ip • Copy Editor: John Newland • Design + Dev: Fathom Information Design

  17. Technologies • Organization and key person • Fathom Information Design: http://fathom.info/ • Ben Fry: http://benfry.com/ • HTML 5 and CSS 3 • More background information: • http://fathom.info/china

  18. Data sources • The app draws on a database containing: • Tens of thousands of entities – people, organizations, events • More than 30,000 relationships • 1.5 million words (equivalent to more than 20 non-fiction books!) Source: http://blogs.reuters.com/connected-china/2013/02/28/welcome/

  19. Visualization • Information Architecture • Shift among them withoutgetting lost

  20. Potential updates • Provenance? • Currently most objects are prov:Agent • More objects of prov:Entity and prov:Activity • Relationships Diagram from the W3C Provenance ontology at: http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/

  21. Potential updates • Career Comparison: add spatial features?

  22. Thanks!

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