Northwestern's Defeat to the Illini as Seen on Twitter
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View ArticleWhy Google Ripples will be a lot less cool than it sounds.
Google + now has a new feature, Ripples, that allows you to see a network visualization of the diffusion of a post (see the Gizmodo article here). The pictures are cool, but the original post has to...
View ArticleA Gephi Visualization of Gephi on Twitter
This is a visualization of Twitter accounts that follow and are followed by @gephi that I made using ... Gephi. I collected the data using NodeXL. Two accounts are linked in the network if one follows...
View ArticleTraining Computers with Crowds
Computers are awesome, but they don't know how to do much on their own; you have to train them. Crowdsourcing turns out to be a great way to do this. Suppose you would like to have an algorithm to...
View ArticleCollecting and Visualizing Twitter Network Data with NodeXl and Gephi
NodeXL is a freely available Excel template that makes it super easier to collect Twitter network data. Once you have the Twitter network data, you can visualize the network with Gephi. Here's how to...
View ArticleVisualizing Contagious Twitter Memes with NodeXL and Gephi
In the last post we explored how to use NodeXL to collect a Twitter user's network data. Now, I'll describe how to collect data on a trending topic. To get started, follow steps 0 and 1 here to setup a...
View ArticleGephi FAQ
Students in my Kellogg MBA and EMBA Social Dynamics and Networks classes do a lot of work using the network analysis and visualization software package Gephi. As with any unfamiliar software, there are...
View ArticleGun Control and Homophily in Social Networks
Last week the website of The Atlantic had a nice network visualization of the top tweets linking to articles on gun politics. You should go check out their site where the network visualization is...
View Article#socialDNA at Kellogg
One of the cool things about the Social Dynamics and Network Analytics (Social-DNA) course that I teach at Kellogg is that there are lots of new research articles, news stories, magazine articles, and...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing Web Data with Amazon Mechanical Turk Example
The amount of data available on the web is astounding, and if you have the computer programming skills you can often write simple "web scrapping" code to automatically harvest that data. But what if...
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