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ICWSM 2010 Liveblog, Day 1

Fourth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-10) We will be liveblogging (when possible) from ICWSM 2010, going on now! Keynote: Bob Kraut, CMU implications for community design -offline theories of socialization helpful, not definitive -online communities can build in good socialization practice -e.g. WP welcoming committee Two Types of Commitments to Groups [...]

NodeXL TwitterScope: social media science in a bucket

by Dru! Can useful observations be made by studying the social media sea one bucket at a time? NodeXL has data import “spigots” for pulling social networks out of several social media systems including Twitter, YouTube, flickr, and email. Twitter networks of follows and followers, reply and mentions can be extracted based on either a [...]

May 23, 2010 – Tutorial: NodeXL and Social Media Network Analysis at ICWSM 2010

Fourth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-10) May 23-26, 2010 George Washington University, Washington, DC Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence The ICWSM 2010 conference starts Sunday. This is a very high quality conference on the study of social media. My colleague, Professor Derek Hansen, and I will [...]

Boardtracker adds AuthorLine visualizations to threaded discussion search service

Boardtracker is a search engine and reporting service for threaded discussions. Recently, the BoardTracker folks implemented a visualization of author activity overtime that was inspired by work Fernanda Viegas and I did in 2003/2004 called “AuthorLines”. AuthorLine visualizations represent the weekly rates and nature of contribution from a single author over the span of a [...]

Mapping connections among twitter users who tweet CRM, SCRM, and Social Graph

CRM, SCRM, and the social graph are all hot topics. This is a map (a social graph) of connections among recent twitter users who tweeted the term “social graph” This is a list of the top “betweeness” contributors in that map: these are the people who most “bridge” different parts of the network. This is a [...]

Contrasting “climate change” and “global warming” twitter maps with NodeXL

Building on the earlier post about the twitter network maps for topics like “oil spill“, “bp“, and “solar“, here is a map of the terms “climate change” and “global warming”. This first map is of the connections among the people who recently tweeted the term “climate change”. There is a sizable population of isolates, people who tweet [...]