Here is a good example of an application of Bernie Hogan's Facebook edgelist extractor. Alan Shussman used it on his own Facebook account and generated the following image: Alan used the NetworkX tool and python to build this image of…
Jordi Comas at Bucknell University just mentioned this cool application on the SOCNET social network analysis discussion email list and I think it is worth a repeat: here is a great game that challenges you to find arrangements of nodes…
NodeXL is growing in features and utility along with its user base. As we just crossed the 5,000 download milestone, it seems time for the next phase in the evolution of all software projects: t-shirts. We need an image, logo,…
A nice example of the value of a graph: here is a network chart generated with NodeXL that represents the connections between products and producers that may be tainted with peanuts that have food poisoning. From Doug Finke's Development in…
Katy Borner at the Visual Data Analysis Conference in San Jose It was good to see Katy Borner at the Visual Data Analysis conference held recently in San Jose. Katy is part of the Network Workbench project that provides…
Answer people and discussion people are critical to many social media spaces. Many hosts of communities want to attract and retain them. When these types of participants contribute to a social media space the results can be very positive: questions…