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October 9-11, 2011: IEEE 2011 Social Computing, Boston: NodeXL Paper on “Group-in-a-box” layouts

This year the IEEE Social Computing conference is being held in Boston, October 9-11, 2011. The NodeXL team from the Social Media Research Foundation have a paper on our newest layout feature in NodeXL: Group-in-a-box. Abstract: Communities in social networks emerge from interactions among individuals and can be analyzed through a combination of clustering and […]

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…

Webshop 2011 review: 4 days, 20 talks, 45 students, an earthquake, a hurricane and many new connections

Summer Social Webshop on Technology-Mediated Social Participation University of Maryland, College Park August 23-26, 2011 Eventful. The 2011 Webshop at the University of Maryland was certainly that with both an earthquake and a hurricane to mark the start and end of the event. We really moved heaven and earth at this workshop. In 4 days, 20 talks, […]

The Social Media Research Foundation – Slides

The Social Media Research Foundation is dedicated to Open Tools, Open Data, and Open Scholarship. These slides provide an overview of the goals and accomplishments of the Social Media Research Foundation: 20110830 Introducing the Social Media Research ...

September 22-23, 2011: Purdue University – Lecture on Social Media Networks

I will speak at Purdue University on September 22 and 23, 2011 about mapping social media networks. My host is Sorin Matei, professor of Communications, who has been researching the social structure of social media networks. I will also speak at Professor Matei’s class: COM 63200 On-line Interaction and Facilitation Here is an example map of […]

3rd Party Data Importers for NodeXL: Web, Exchange, and Facebook Importers

NodeXL is extendable. 3rd Party developers have been building data providers that can plug into NodeXL that connect the network visualization tool to sources of network data. We now have three providers of extensions to NodeXL: VOSON for WWW hyperlink networks, the Exchange Spigot for NodeXL for extracting enterprise email networks, and the Facebook Spigot […]