Tag: socialnetworks
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Relationships Behind Chicago’s Bid for the Olympics
The two clusters in the core are roughly split into Democrats (l) and Republicans (r). Built from data by LittleSis.org. As always, click for larger image.
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Health Care Leans Republican
3.6-times as many former congressional staffers turned health care lobbyists and their immediate connections have network ties closer to former President Bush, than to current President Obama. The connections in the network map shown below, and used for the analysis above, include people and organizations (e.g. corporate, not-for-profit, public, etc.) the people have been identified…
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Mathematicians Do It Randomly
What it look like if you took all of the Mathematics articles from JSTOR, the digital journal archive, and mapped co-authorship of the papers? It would look something like this. Interesting to note, that while the distribution does hold to the small world network distribution exponent, there’s some “peakiness” about it that may suggest it’s…
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Health Care Lobbyists Part Deux
Thanks everyone for showing the strong interest in the Lobbyist map. I got a couple nice mentions at Mother Jones and LittleSis.org, but more importantly, I’ve added in all of the other names in the map. Circles are people, squares are organizations, and white circles are the lobbyists in question. If you’d rather the image…
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Best Networked Healthcare Lobbyists? [updated]
The Huffington Post, along with public contributors, has been collecting a list of former Congressional staffers turned healthcare lobbyists. LittleSis.org has been keeping track of these former staffers, and thanks to their API, we now have a social graph of their relationships. Former staffers in white (with names), and the rest of the visual field…
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Healthcare and the Senate Finance Committee
Late last month, the NY Times had an article about the debate over healthcare legislation taking place in the Senate Finance Committee. Coincidentally, around that time, the folks over at LittleSis, the “free database detailing the connections between powerful people and organizations,” were kind enough to give me early access to their API (thanks Kevin…
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Twitter Communication is Scale Free
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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Election Influence by 527’s: Browsable Map
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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Graphing Wall Street with LittleSis.org
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…
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Response: How Does the Web Define Authority?
The real questions are: whom do we trust, why, and under what conditions is trust transferable? Chris Brogran asks: How does the web define authority? First is an important matter of language. There is a large difference between authority and an authority. Authority is power formally granted by a position or role. An authority is…