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NodeXL EventGraph: ACM CHI2011 – Twitter Connections

The ACM CHI 2011 Conference is taking place in Vancouver, BC. May 10, 2011 May 8, 2011 These are the connections among the Twitter users who recently tweeted the word chi2011 when queried on May 8, 2011, scaled by numbers of followers (with outliers thresholded). Connections created when users reply, mention or follow one another. […]

NodeXL v.167 – New features for handling groups of nodes in a network (and a few other things)

The NodeXL team at the Social Media Research Foundation is happy to announce the availability of the newest version: there is lots of new stuff in the latest release of NodeXL v.1.0.1.167! Group Frames: If your graph has groups and you choose to lay out the groups in their own boxes (NodeXL, Graph, Layout, Layout […]

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…

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 [...]

Geocode your Twitter network with NodeXL

As mobile devices become a major method for authoring and consuming social media, location data is increasingly a part of many posts, tweets, check-ins, and messages. Many Twitter clients, for example, can add the user’s current latitude and longitude to the metadata associated with a tweet. Other systems like Facebook Places, Google Latitude and Foursquare [...]

Mapping the connections among the #wikileaks, #pdfleaks and #cablegate mentioning twitter populations with #NodeXL

On Saturday 11 December 2010 A Symposium on Wikileaks and Internet Freedom (http://personaldemocracy.com/pdfleaks) was held in New York City. I did not attend in person, but the event was streamed live. A colleague of mine, Zeynep Tufekci (@techsoc), a sociologist from the University of Maryland ebiquity group, did attend and spoke on the second panel of [...]