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…
A new free and open project to implement a web based social network visualization front end is available on Codeplex: the "Information Connections Engine (ICE) is a Silverlight based framework that allows .net developers to easily visualize any type of…
Network graphs are appearing in a number of places. Recently, slate.com published a tool that maps the links between entities in the day's news. "To use this interactive tool, just click on a circle to see which stories mention that…
Network graphs are appearing in a number of places. Recently, slate.com published a tool that maps the links between entities in the day's news. "To use this interactive tool, just click on a circle to see which stories mention that…
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"…