How We Know Us

Tag: visualization

  • Influencing Elections: Network of Expenditures by 527s

    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…

  • I Hear Twitter

    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…

  • NY Political Contributions

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

  • 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…

  • Beautiful, Beautiful Data

    Flip over at InfoChimps has put together a massive scrape of twitter.  While trying to figure out how to process it all, I’ve drawn one day’s scrape* (20-Dec-08).  Many thanks to Flip and InfoChimps for the wow work, and doubly so for making publicly available.

  • Deconstructing Delicious: Merlin Mann

    Merlin Mann has a large set of public delicious tags, and I thought I’d take a stab at their interrelation.  By my measure of centrality, his top 20 are: 43folders domains tumble music sanfrancisco macosx flickr mbwideas gtd movies design tv selflink mac heh email productivity lifehacks the_man cigars Why Merlin Mann you might ask? …

  • 5 Years of Insider Trading

  • Implied Social Networks example: the news

    Social Network derived from relationships in the news.

  • 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…

  • 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.…