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Zoom.it – displaying zoomable Twitter network images of the terms “FOCAS11″ or “Aspen Institute”

Here is a nice way to display high resolution network maps: zoom.it! This is a map of the connections among the people who tweeted the terms “FOCAS11″ or “Aspen Institute” on August 2, 2011. Connections among the Twitter users who recently tweeted the word Aspeninstitute OR FOCAS11 when queried on August 2, 2011, scaled by […]

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 collection of NodeXL images on flickr: How many kinds of networks do you see?

I am coming to understand what is interesting in any particular network visualization by looking at many network visualizations. Using NodeXL, I have made several maps of social media networks of people talking about several topics of interest from current events to conferences I attend. You can find a collection of them on flickr. I [...]

VIDEO: NodeXL demo from Eduarda from Microsoft Research Cambridge at EU Innovation Day event

My colleague, Eduarda Mendes-Rodriguez, recently demoed NodeXL at the Microsoft EU Innovation Day event in Brussels, Belgium. She illustrates the value of network analysis in general with a social network diagram representing the voting patterns of United States Senators in 2007.…