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1 Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Creating Visualizations with NodeXL Cody Dunne cdunne@cs.umd.edu 13th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2012). June 4-7, 2012, College Park, MD.

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3 My Background

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5 Social Media Research Foundation Social Media Research Foundation http://smrfoundation.org

6 What we have done: Open Tools NodeXL Data providers (“spigots”)

7 What we have done: Open Data NodeXLGraphGallery.org

8 What we have done: Open Scholarship

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10 Forthcoming, Sept 2010 http://nodexl.codeplex.com

11 What is Social Media?

12 Social Media is all about connections from people to people.

13 Patterns are left behind

14 There are many kinds of ties…. http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevendepolo/3254238329 Like, Link, Reply, Rate, Review, Favorite, Friend, Follow, Forward, Edit, Tag, Comment, Check-in… Internet Verbs!

15 “Think Link” Nodes & Edges Is related to A B

16 Strong ties

17 Weak ties

18 http://www.flickr.com/photos/dbarefoot/1814873464/sizes/o/ Robert Scoble’s Social Media “Star Fish”

19 Social Networks History: from the dawn of time! Jacob L. Moreno (1934)

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21 Why do can we find in Social Media?

22 Hubs

23 Bridges

24 http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3295494976/sizes/o/in/photostream/

25 http://www.flickr.com/photos/amycgx/3119640267/

26 Why are these features important?

27 Understanding information flow

28 Organizations Data sources Email Message Boards Blogs Wikis Document sharing Activity streams Goals Marketing Support Identify experts Identify key employees

29 Communities

30 Welser, Howard T., Eric Gleave, Danyel Fisher, and Marc Smith. 2007. 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

31 Networks

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33 Edge List AliceBobCathy Alice011 Bob000 Cathy100 Adjacency Matrix Vertex1Vertex2 AliceBob AliceCathy Alice

34 Network Analysis Applications

35 Introduction to NodeXL Like MSPaint™ for graphs. — the Community


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