Metrics
The network created by "Who follows who among the people who tweeted "#CHI2010". Node size is proportional to total tweets. Generated with NodeXL On October 29th, I will be offering a workshop in Mountain View, California on the application of…
Here is a great piece of social media research from the University of Maryland, College of Information Studies. Prof. Jen Golbeck and Justin Grimes analyzed 6,000 tweets from United States Congress members. They found some interaction but a dominant broadcast…
A recent paper makes use of NodeXL to create illustrations of data from connections among twitter users drawn from the United States presidential debates in October 2008. One illustration highlights the major clusters in the network. Tweet the Debates: Understanding…
This weekend is the Social Computing 2009 conference in Vancouver, B.C. It is a gathering of many people doing research on social media useage. Many papers are about tagging systems, blogs, wikis, message boards, and social networking services. [flickrset id="72157622064119361"…
On August 5th and 6th I led a workshop with Martha Russell on social network analysis of social media as part of the Stanford Media X Summer Institute on New Metrics for New Media: Analytics for Social Media and Virtual Worlds this Summer.
New Metrics for New Media: Analytics for Social Media and Virtual Worlds
Organizers: Martha Russell, Marc Smith
August 5-6
Social media and virtual worlds offer two important frontiers for measuring earned engagement. In both, audiences are actively engaged as participants. This workshop covered foundational concepts in media measurement, describe new frontiers in measuring audience engagement in social media and virtual worlds, and provided hands-on experience in using new analytical tools.
This session also provided a walk through the basic operation of NodeXL, including generation of social networks from social media data sources like personal e-mail (drawing data from the Windows Desktop Search engine) and the Twitter social network micro-blogging system. Arbitrary edge lists (anything that can be pasted into Excel) can be visualized and analyzed in NodeXL. Attendees were encouraged to bring an edge list of interest. Sample data sets were provided.
Video about the New Media for New Metrics Workshop
Agenda WEDNESDAY, August 5: #124 Wallenberg Hall
08.30 – 09.00 – Welcome, Introductions & Overview
The Catalyst Conference was July 27-31 in San Diego which gathered many people to discuss new technologies for enterprise computing. On Wednesday, July 29 at 11:15 a.m. I gave a presentation about the use of social network analysis within the enterprise. 2009…
