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Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Creating Visualizations with NodeXL. Cody Dunne cdunne@cs.umd.edu 13th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research ( dg.o 2012). June 4-7, 2012, College Park, MD. My Background.
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Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Creating Visualizations with NodeXL Cody Dunne cdunne@cs.umd.edu 13th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o2012). June 4-7, 2012, College Park, MD.
What we have done: Open Tools • NodeXL • Data providers (“spigots”)
What we have done: Open Data NodeXLGraphGallery.org
What we have done: Open Scholarship • Webshop 2011: NSF, Google, Intel • Webshop 2012! August 21-24 @UMD • Other Workshops: ICWSM12, NetSci, HyperText12, Cape Town, Yeungnam, Italy
Forthcoming, Sept 2010 http://nodexl.codeplex.com
Social Media is all about connections from people to people.
Internet Verbs! There are many kinds of ties…. Like, Link, Reply, Rate, Review, Favorite, Friend, Follow, Forward, Edit, Tag, Comment, Check-in… http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevendepolo/3254238329
“Think Link”Nodes & Edges Is related to B A
Robert Scoble’s Social Media “Star Fish” http://www.flickr.com/photos/dbarefoot/1814873464/sizes/o/
Social Networks • History: from the dawn of time! • Jacob L. Moreno (1934)
Clusters http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3295494976/sizes/o/in/photostream/
Crowds http://www.flickr.com/photos/amycgx/3119640267/
Organizations Data sources Goals Marketing Support Identify experts Identify key employees • Email • Message Boards • Blogs • Wikis • Document sharing • Activity streams
Welser, Howard T., Eric Gleave, Danyel Fisher, and Marc Smith. 2007. Visualizing the Signatures of Social Roles in Online Discussion Groups.The Journal of Social Structure. 8(2). Experts and “Answer People” Discussion people, Topic setters Discussion starters, Topic setters
Edge List Adjacency Matrix
Introduction to NodeXL Like MSPaint™ for graphs. — the Community