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Group-in-a-box – a new layout option in NodeXL (v.164)

Attractive and well designed network visualization layouts are complex to automate. Many researchers have devoted a great deal of effort to refining algorithms that assign the best set of positions to a set of nodes. In many cases a layout algorithm will work well for some types of graphs and not others. NodeXL has a [...]

2011 State of the Union: Mapping the connections among Twitter users who tweet about SOTU

The United States State of the Union address this year was held Tuesday evening, 25 January 2011. The event is a globally visible opportunity for the President of the United States to present the Administration's vision for its agenda for…

Workshop: January 28th, 2011, Salinas, CA: Mapping social media networks with NodeXL

Mapping Social Networks with NodeXL: Finding Direction in a Sea of Connection The Community Foundation for Monterey County has a Social Network Support project that has applied network analysis techniques to map networks of nonprofit organizations (http://www.cfmco.org/index.cfm/id/18/Social-Network-Support/). They recognize that awareness…

HICSS 2011 Paper: EventGraphs: Charting Collections of Conference Connections

A recent paper “EventGraphs: Charting Collections of Conference Connections” by Social Media Research Foundation members Marc Smith (from Connected Action), Professor Derek Hansen (College of Information Studies) and Professor Ben Shneiderman (Computer Science/Human Computer Interaction Lab) both from the University of Maryland and has been published at…

HICSS 2011 Paper: EventGraphs: Charting Collections of Conference Connections

A recent paper “EventGraphs: Charting Collections of Conference Connections” by Marc Smith from Connected Action, Professor Derek Hansen (College of Information Studies) and Professor Ben Shneiderman (Computer Science/Human Computer Interaction Lab) both from the University of Maryland and has been accepted for publication at the 2011 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) Conference. This is the 44th year for the conference. [...]

Aggregate Overall Metrics Feature: Finding patterns in collections of many networks using NodeXL

Once you start creating and collecting network graphs you may find you can build a significant collection: hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands of graphs may result from a study or on-going monitoring project. In a series of features in the NodeXL project we have enabled a workflow for constructing many social media network graphs [...]