Astroturfing Censured by NY Attorney General

July 15, 2009

While not networking exactly, this does touch on our predilection to believe others we do not know, if there are enough of them.
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has settled with a plastic surgery company, alleging the firm published phony positive testimonials and Web sites. Lifestyle Lift, associated with Michigan-based Scientific Image Center Management, agreed [...]

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Twitter Communication is Scale Free

July 7, 2009

Creating a network from a sample of communications from approximately 900,000 people on Twitter, the distribution of distinct communication partners result fits the definition of a scale-free network.  The power is a little higher than scale-free networks usually described for social networks (2<k<3), but not much.

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Iranian Government Social Network Analysis

June 14, 2009

In honor of the Iranian election, here’s the 2001 social network analysis of the Iranian government by Renfro and Deckro.

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Statistics::SocialNetworks Perl mod is live!

May 16, 2009

Statistics::SocialNetworks has just been uploaded to CPAN, and as it percolates through the system I put forward the question, “What are we going to do with it?”
My goal in getting a module into CPAN is easy access, and a starting point to where we can decide what tools we want, and not have to reinvent [...]

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Election Influence by 527’s: Browsable Map

April 16, 2009

I wanted to put out what’s been done so far on making yesterday’s post more interactive. There’s an awful lot that could be better about this map. Particularly legibility of labels in the core (it’s just too dense). If you want to see names, I suggest looking at the edges of the map.
Michael Bommarito [...]

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Influencing Elections: Network of Expenditures by 527s

April 15, 2009

OpenSecrets.org is offering free access to their collected data about political contributions, and in that vein, I’ve created a network of expenditures by 527’s*.  I am looking for a way to make this more detailed for your ease of exploration, so please stay tuned.

*Groups whose primary purpose is to influence elections are exempt from taxation [...]

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Network Analysis Application to Game Theory (with Software)

April 4, 2009

When will network analysis provide additional insight into game theory? In a word: inequality.
There must be some form of quantifiable inequality in the game: access, strength of relationships, goals, etc.  This difference creates opportunities for the individual players to use information (or resource) asymmetries and broker to their benefit.

On the left all of the arrows [...]

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I Hear Twitter

March 18, 2009

Friendship, it seems, is more accurately demonstrated than described.  We usually don’t do a good job accurately reporting our friendships when questioned.  So, here’s a look at a slightly higher measurement of friendship: conversations.
If you squint (or click to enlarge the image) you can find a little yellow dot.  That’s me.  The connections between dots [...]

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NY Political Contributions

March 10, 2009

Digging around the “archives” I found this image I created of the interrelations of NY residents contributing in the 2007-2008 election cycle.

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Graphing Wall Street with LittleSis.org

March 1, 2009

With a goal of transparency, LittleSis.Org has started collecting peer-membership information for public figures of many sorts.  Just the stuff made for social graphs!
This is image represents the social networks of the CEOs of the American Wall Street companies, from the info at LittleSis.  Red nodes are the CEOs (Thain is included), and green are [...]

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