Marc Smith

June 22, 2011: NodeXL at the NextWork Networks event in New York City

On June 22nd in New York City Wired Magazine and the Economist hosted a day of discussions and displays related to the theme of “Nextwork” hosted by Juniper Networks and located at the Tribeca Rooftop. The Social Media Research Foundation displayed and printed Nextwork Networks maps of the connections among the people who tweeted about the conference, […]

NodeXL Exchange Spigot: Extract social networks from enterprise email

The widely used Microsoft Exchange email server contains many networks that are created as people reply to one another and join various groups and distribution lists. A new NodeXL data provider (“spigot“) is now available to extract these social networks from Exchange servers. This is the Exchange Spigot for NodeXL a configurable interface for defining […]

A legend in your own network graph: NodeXL legend describes data elements

Every network visualization should have a legend that explains what the colors, edge widths, and filters are that define the network graph. NodeXL automatically generates a network legend and displays it when the Graph Elements menu is opened: And the “Legend” option is selected. This will place a legend at the bottom of the visualization […]

A Sample Settings File for NodeXL: An automated recipie for making Twitter network visualizations

Starting in version .165 of NodeXL we have supported the idea of an options file that can be imported, exported and exchanged among users. If you have set all the knobs and dials of your copy of NodeXL just right, you can export these adjustments and configurations into a single file. Use the NodeXL>Options>Export feature […]

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 […]