Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Creating Visualizations with NodeXL Cody Dunne Philip Merrill College of Journalism Colloquium October 22, 2012, College Park, MD.
My Background
Why Visualization?
Networks
Edge List AliceBobCathy Alice011 Bob000 Cathy100 Adjacency Matrix Vertex1Vertex2 AliceBob AliceCathy Alice
Who Uses Network Analysis
Cytoscape Pajek Gephi
What is Social Media?
Social Media is all about connections from people to people.
Patterns are left behind
There are many kinds of ties…. Like, Link, Reply, Rate, Review, Favorite, Friend, Follow, Forward, Edit, Tag, Comment, Check-in… Internet Verbs!
“Think Link” Nodes & Edges Is related to A B
Strong ties
Weak ties
Robert Scoble’s Social Media “Star Fish”
Social Networks History: from the dawn of time! Jacob L. Moreno (1934)
Why do can we find in Social Media?
Hubs
Bridges
Why are these features important?
Understanding information flow
Organizations Data sources Message Boards Blogs Wikis Document sharing Activity streams Goals Marketing Support Identify experts Identify key employees
Communities
Welser, Howard T., Eric Gleave, Danyel Fisher, and Marc Smith Visualizing the Signatures of Social Roles in Online Discussion Groups. The Journal of Social Structure. 8(2). Visualizing the Signatures of Social Roles in Online Discussion GroupsJournal of Social Structure Experts and “Answer People” Discussion starters, Topic setters Discussion people, Topic setters
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Introduction to NodeXL Like MSPaint™ for graphs. — the Community