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Social Media Research Foundation

Hello! We are a group of researchers who want to create open tools, generate and host open data, and support open scholarship related to social media. Social media is the term for all the ways people connect to people through…

NodeXL Graph Gallery on the web: Collectively Authored Archives of Networks

The NodeXL team from the Social Media Research Foundation has released a web application that allows users to upload network files and download files other users have uploaded. The Social Media Research Foundation is dedicated to Open Tools, Open Data, and Open Scholarship. The NodeXL Graph Gallery on the Web enables the research community to collectively gather […]

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 […]

NodeXL: Automatically Collapse Groups in v.166 with Autofill Columns and Conditional Collapse

NodeXL allows users to gather vertices into named collections called “Groups”. This is handy whenever the entities in the network are made up of different types or an algorithm has divided the network into sub-regions based on how densely some vertices connect to one another. The Groups menu is found in the NodeXL>Analysis menu: Since version […]

NodeXL (v.166) Keyboard Shortcuts

NodeXL now (v.166) offers users a set of keyboard shortcuts that can speed up your routine network layout tasks. After you click in the graph pane, a number of keyboard shortcuts are now available for functions that had previously been available in the visualization pane’s right-click menu. Now, you can press: Ctrl+A to select all [...]

30 April 2010, Friday – Workshop: Social Media Network Analysis: Next Practices in Social Network Analysis, Tools and Media

I will present a workshop on social media network analysis at the next Network Singularity event at Fort Mason on the Bay in San Francisco on April 30, 2010. Bay Area and Silicon Valley Network: Special Action/Research Event Social Media Network Analysis: Next Practices in Social Network Analysis, Tools and Media Friday 30 April 2010 8:00am -5:00pm [...]