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Social NetworkVisualisation Hacks
Tony HirstDept of Communication and Systems
The Open University, UK
@psychemedia
blog.ouseful.info
#ddj
Where I situate myself…
VOCABULARY
Macroscopes
Graphs, Charts & Maps
A chart…
A network diagram that can be described as a GRAPH…
node/vertex node
edge
undirected edge
directed edge
Afollows
followsB
C A -> BC -> B
Afollows
followsB
C From, ToA, BC, B
A 2-column CSV (column separated variable) file can define a graph:
Bipartite Graphs(different node types)
Ais a member of
is a member oflist
B
Bipartite Graphscan be collapsed…
(networkx Python library)
Ais a member of
is a member oflist
B
Aliston a list with
B
List Intelligence
Folk on lists @jisccetis is on
Co-tags/co-topics
Journalists by co-tag
To recap…
Network structure
All nodes the same sort of thing
Bipartite graph – two sorts of nodesCan collapse a bipartite graph to get a new view over the dataStru
cture in data - graphs
Node and edges
Edges may be directed or undirected
Edges may be weighted
Follower map
#madewithgephi
“Inner-friends”map(1.5 degree egonet)
ESP
EmergenEEeeeEmergent
Social
Positioning
A
B
Is followed byFollo
ws
Is followed byfocus
A
B
Is followed byFollo
ws
Followspeer
peerFollows
Is followed byfocus
A
B
Is followed byFollo
ws
peerFollows
Is followed byfocus
Friends of followers
Google+ (Python)
Additional Interests…
Friends’ Likes(Google Refine)
Static vs. Dynamic Maps
Time series Analysis
Autocorrelation
STATICfollows
has as friendA B
is followed by is ??’s friend
B A
DYNAMICretweets
sends a message toA B
is retweeted by receives a message from
B A
=importData(“CSV_URL”)
The online CSV filebecomes a spreadsheet
becomes A DATABASE
@mhawksey TAGSExplorer
R / ggplot2
(Accession Plot)
@mediaczar
Yahoo Pipes
ouseful/tagterms
ouseful/twlisttags
ouseful/twitterhashtagsearch
ouseful/localtweets
ouseful/happybirthday
Commonalities and differences
#bbcqt & #newsnight
Audience interest differencing
@psychemedia
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