October 22, 2010 – Connecting the Dots – A Network Visualization Symposium at Harvard

CONNECTING THE DOTS
A Network Visualization Symposium

http://networks.iq.harvard.edu/

Date: October 22, 2010
The first CONNECTING THE DOTS symposium on network visualization organized by Michael Barnett, Jukka-Pekka Onnela, and Samuel Arbesman of The Christakis Lab at Harvard was held on October 22, 2010.

Keynote speakers:

Alessandro Vespignani, Professor of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington
Ben Fry, co-developer of Processing and data visualization expert

The NodeXL project will be represented by Ben Shneiderman who will speak at 2:00 PM on:

Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL

NodeXL is the free and open add-in for Excel 2007/2010 that supports network

overview, discovery and exploration. Supported by Microsoft External Research

for 3+ years, this effort has produced a game-changing software tool that enables

students, researchers, and professional community managers to extract and

download networks from email, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, WWW, etc. Then they

can compute network analytic metrics, filter out less relevant features, apply

multiple layout algorithms, and produce compelling yet comprehensible displays

that reveal actionable insights about complex social processes.

Complete draft program for Connecting_the_Dots…

Video: October 19, 2010: Marc Smith talk at the University of Michigan

I spoke at the University of Michigan, School of Information on October 19th, 2010 about “Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Mapping and Measuring Social Media Networks to Find Key Positions and Structures". I demonstrated the ways social network…

NodeXL book advertisement runs in Interactions Magazine from the ACM

The book Analyzing social media networks with NodeXL: Insights from a connected world has recently published from Morgan-Kaufman. It is nice to see the advertisement for the book running in the current edition of Interactions Magazine from the ACM. Thanks…

Book: Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a connected world now available

In Stock!

The book Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a connected world is now available [Amazon] from Morgan-Kaufman. Co-authored by Professor Derek Hansen (College of Information Studies) and Professor Ben Shneiderman (Computer Science/Human Computer Interaction Lab) from the University of Maryland and Marc Smith from Connected Action, the book is a introduction and guide to the application of social network analysis to social media. The introductory chapters introduce the history and concepts of social network analysis an the varieties of social media, highlighting the presence of a common data structure, the network, in otherwise diverse social media systems including email, Twitter, Facebook, the WWW, Wikis, Blogs, flickr, an YouTube. The central section of the book reviews a step-by-step guide to using the key features of NodeXL, the free and open social media network analysis add-in for Excel 2007 and 2010. Readers can move from simple hand entered networks of a few nodes up to complex graphs extracted from a variety of social media services. The remainder of the book are focused chapters dedicated to analyzing the networks found within a specific social media service. These chapters were contributed by leading social media researchers and illustrate the insights that can be extracted from the otherwise disorganized stream of messages, tweets, posts, comments, links, likes, tags, friends, follows, mentions, replies and ratings. A recent article about the book can be found on the Morgan-Kaufmann website.

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CONNECTING THE DOTS A Network Visualization Symposium

CONNECTING THE DOTS
A Network Visualization Symposium