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Coming October 12, 2015: NodeXL Pro – advanced support for mapping social media networks

September 25, 2015
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The Social Media Research Foundation is dedicated to making tools that help people understand social media and social networks. We produce NodeXL Basic which is available freely and openly to all. NodeXL Pro offers advanced features for importing social media…

Think link: network patterns in social media

Network analysis is a way of looking at the world that focuses on the shape and structure of collections of relationships. In a network perspective the world is not primarily composed of individuals (“nodes”, “vertices”, “entities”). Instead, a network approach focuses on relationships between individuals (“edges”, “ties”, “connections”, “links”). When collections of connections are analyzed, […]

October 24th, 2013: NodeXL Social Media Network Analysis Workshop at Arizona State University

I will speak about social media networks on October 24th, 2013 at the department of Computer Science at the Arizona State University. The graph represents a network of 712 Twitter users whose recent tweets contained “@ASU”, taken from a data set limited to a maximum of 10,000 tweets. The network was obtained from Twitter on […]

September 26-27, 2013: NodeXL Social Media Network Analysis Workshop at the Universidad Externado, Bogota, Colombia

September 26-27, 2013 at the Universidad Externado, Bogota, Colombia I will participate in a workshop on social media network analysis at the Universidad Externado, Bogota, Colombia on September 26-27, 2013. My host is Professor Hernando Rojas from the University of Wisconsin and the Universidad Externado. Here is a map of the connections among the people who recently tweeted UExternado:

NodeXL describes the networks you create: Graph Summary in v.203

Here is a map of connections among people who recently tweeted the term “peoplebrowsr”. “But what does that picture mean?” I hear this reaction frequently when I show people maps I have made of social media connections. I often point out that the map and the data can reveal people who occupy important locations in […]

December 15, 2011 – @IFTF NodeXL & Gephi – Social Media Mapping Open House

Online Ticketing powered by Eventbrite NodeXL Event at IFTF, Thursday, December 15, 2011 Along with the Social Media Research Foundation, the Institute for the Future is co-hosting a meetup for those interested in mapping social media networks. Users of tools like NodeXL and Gephi (among others) are welcome to join us for an evening devoted to collecting, […]