Tag: socialnetworks
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How Would You Promote Education through Social Networks?
I was recently asked to put together some thoughts about the potential impact Social Networks could have on education by a really savvy M.D. over at Cerner, and I thought this audience might be interested too. I have not seen too much about this topic, and would really like to hear your thoughts. Social Networking…
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5 Years of Insider Trading
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Implied Social Networks example: the news
Social Network derived from relationships in the news.
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Predict Attention in Social Networks
People distribute attention according to a power-law distribution. Power-laws have long been associated with distribution of quantity of links individuals in social networks have. My on-going research suggests that power-laws not only describe distributions at the network level, they also describe distribution at the individual level. We communicate in a power-law distribution with our contacts,…
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Visualize Your Network with Fidg’t
figd’t screenshot There are more and more great tools getting developed for visualizing our social networks. One of the more beautiful ones I have come across is Fidg’t. While not quite a SN visualization tool, it does operate on data from SN’s. Fidg’t is an interactive display that looks at your tags in Flickr and…
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Social Networks and Sales
From eponymous Social Network data alone, I can tell you who has, for any group, the most influence, who the leaders are, and who you need to convince in order to turn the opinion of the group as a whole. The question is are you going to be a trusted adviser, or a hard sell?…
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Friendship: #1 factor in whom we spend time with
Like all good science, analyzing social networks sometimes works out to proving things we always thought were true. Sometimes, we never even had any idea how right we were. For example, we really do spend more time with people we like. A few really bright folks from MIT and the Kennedy School, have a paper…
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Great Work, Lousy Title
Good news, from Roland Piquepaille over at ZDNet… According to Nature News, a team of French researchers has used medieval documents to create the oldest detailed social network ever constructed. The mathematicians and computer scientists looked through thousands of records of land transactions dating back as far as 1260 in a Southwest part of France.…
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Lower Limits on Social Network Analysis: Just Ask
Are there lower limits to the size of Social Networks worth analyzing? The upper limit seems to be a function of how much time (and compute power) you have, but the lower? When we do analyses, these are certain characteristics we look for as verification that our models hold. A key characteristic is the shape…