Tag: visualization
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Playing with Circos
Martin Krzywinski at the Genome Sciences Centre of the BC Cancer Agency, created software called Circos designed to help elucidate the interaction of genes, and has used it to create some truly beautiful graphs. The software is pretty complex, and I have only figured out how to use his simple on-line version, which limits the…
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Social Networks of the Senate
I always enjoy analyzing social networks (SN’s) that have had a lot less press than the Goliaths of MySpace and Facebook. I have done an awful lot of them, but one of my favorites was looking at the co-sponsorship patterns in the US Senate, 110th session (the current one). This analysis was especially enjoyable because…
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Your network: for or against you?
Your network can help you or work against you, it all depends on the level alignment between your network and your goals. If you are trying to get something done with a team, your network should reflect that. If you are looking for new opportunties, your network should reflect that. I wrote a short piece…
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Visualizing Your Professional Networks
I spend much of my waking time thinking about how relationships between individuals in groups effect the behavior of the individuals and of the group itself. One tool I recently put together looks at professional relationships from LinkedIn.com. Attached is a representation of the relationships between the 17,000 people my work contacts know. This is…