NodeXL has updated again (v.1.0.1.109) with new network metrics. The application now calculates path length data for your network, reporting the Maximum Geodesic Distance and the Average Geodesic Distance. The list of overall metrics NodeXL creates includes: Vertices (the number of…
NodeXL updated starting with version 1.05 with features that make it fairly easy to create basic "Venn Diagrams". A Venn diagram is a familiar way to illustrate the overlap (or lack thereof) of two or more "sets" of things. There…
Network visualizations can be very compelling but they are often a smear of unintelligible nodes and edges without refinement and filtering. Creating an automated layout for a complex graph is a challenging area of mathematics and computer science. Several layouts…
There are hundreds of conferences sponsored by the ACM on almost every topic related to computing. In some cases the same person will publish a paper in more than one conference, creating a tie between them. Below is a network…
Here is a recent slidedeck that provides an overview of NodeXL and social media network analysis. 2009 December NodeXL Overview View more presentations from Marc Smith. The deck illustrates the use of NodeXL to extract several social media networks from…
Here is the Call for Papers for the
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
IMPORTANT DATES:
Tutorial Proposals: December 1, 2009
Paper Submission: January 8, 2010
Poster/Demo Submission: January 8, 2010
Paper Acceptance: March 3, 2010
Poster/Demo Acceptance: March 3, 2010
Workshop Submission: March 1, 2010
Camera Ready Copies: March 12, 2010
Featuring a keynote by:
Professor Bob Kraut, CMU,
on “Designing Online Communities from Theory”
Professor Michael Kearns, Computer and Information Science,
Univ. of Pennsylvania,
on “Behavioral Experiments in Strategic Networks”
Speakers in Special Sessions:
– Nicole Ellison, Dept. of Telecommunication,
Information Studies and Media, Michigan State Univ.
– James Pennebaker, Dept. of Psychology, Univ. of Texas, Austin
– S. Craig Watkins, Dept. of Radio, TV and Film, Univ. of Texas, Austin- Don Burke, CIA Directorate of Science and Technology, Intellipedia
– Haym Hirsh, National Science Foundation IIS Division Director
– Macon Phillips, U.S. White House, Head of New Media
Tutorial Speakers will include:
– Jake Hofman, Yahoo! Research,
“Large-scale social media analytics with Hadoop”
– Cindy Chung and James Pennebaker, Univ. Texas,
“Using LIWC to uncover social psychology in social media”