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New Twitter data recipe – vertex color by language

A new layer of information is added to a Twitter network map when coloring the vertices by account language. This approach may reveal regional clusters of Twitter users and works very well when visualizing networks around search terms with international…

New Publication: Classifying Twitter Topic-Networks Using Social Network Analysis (2017)

SMR Foundation collaborators Itai Himelboim, Marc A. Smith, Lee Rainie, Ben Shneiderman and Camila Espina have recently published the article Classifying Twitter Topic-Networks Using Social Network Analysis in Social Media + Society (January-March 2017: 1 –13). Abstract As users interact via…

6 Kinds of Twitter Social Media Network Structures

Video: Webinar on Data Visualization and NodeXL, hosted by SoftArtisans

I spoke in a webinar on Data Visualization and NodeXL hosted by SoftArtisans and now available on Vimeo. Thanks to Claire and Elise!

June 4, 2012 – ICWSM-12 – International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media – Dublin

On June 4th in Dublin, Ireland the 2012 International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media. ICWSM gathers computer scientists, linguists, communications scholars, and the social scientists to increase understanding of social media in all its incarnations. Now in its sixth year, ICWSM is a leading venue for cutting-edge research in social media. ICWSM-12, features a […]

OOW11 in Twitter – Oracle Open World Twitter Network

Here is an updated map of the connections among people who recently tweeted the term “Oracle”: Connections among the Twitter users who recently tweeted the word Oracle when queried on October 5, 2011, scaled by numbers of followers (with outliers thresholded). Connections created when users reply, mention or follow one another. Top most between users: […]