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Recent links to NodeXL related commentary and reviews

Here is a recent collection of NodeXL related activity and commentary: Here is a great review of Analyzing social media networks with NodeXL: Insights from a connected world by Gerd Waloszek, SAP User Experience book reviewer: http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/ book_people/review_ana_sm_nw.asp Several reviews of the book Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a connected world have [...]

How to run NodeXL on a connected Mac (or other platform) using Amazon EC2

I have a MacBookPro. I can run Windows very nicely using various Virtual Machine products like VMWare’s Fusion or the free and open VirtualBox. In these virtual machines I can run Windows and Office and then NodeXL. It’s pretty neat to see Windows inside the Mac OS window. I am always amazed that it works [...]

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 [...]

Fully automatic: NodeXL can build your network graphs hands free

In many cases I look at a network graph and apply a series of operations to transform it into a more presentable form. For example, I often calculate graph metrics, use Autofill columns to map data to display attributes like size, color, or shape, create clusters, sub-graph images, and then select the Harel-Koren layout and [...]

Expand and Collapse Groups of Vertices with NodeXL v.132

Clusters are now groups in NodeXL. Recently, the NodeXL team has been focused on a set of new features related to grouping sets of vertices together. In the previous version we released a feature that allowed all sorts of groupings to be recorded in the worksheet. What’s new is that the three clustering algorithms we [...]

Latest version of NodeXL gains Web 1.0 Hyperlink Network Importer: VOSON “spigot”

+ This is a milestone for NodeXL! Prof. Robert Ackland from the Australian Demographic & Social Research Institute (ADSRI) at the Australian National University has created a data provider for NodeXL based on the VOSON (Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks) Project. With the VOSON Data Provider Plugin for NodeXL, you can now access [...]