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Largest ever organizational network analysis shows how social networks drive performance
For years now I have been trying to get the message out to senior executives that effective social networks are critical to business performance . By now that is well understood, in part supported by the large body research and academic literature on how social networks in and across organizations drive results and performance.
SocialAction
SocialAction is a social network analysis tool that integrates visualization and statistics to improve the analytical process. A journal article about SocialAction was recently published in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. See the full details in the papers below.
The 2010 NBA Finals are underway with a classic battle between the Lakers and Celtics. Over 10 million people tuned in to watch game 2 on ABC and we tracked nearly 500,000 Tweets and public Facebook posts mentioning Lakers or Celtics during the game. The series is tied at 1 game a piece with the Celtics taking game 2 on the road. We monitored social media activity for the first two games and broke it down below.
Lakers vs. Celtics: Social Media Breakdown #NBA
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What's this? Each line in this chart represents a topic's mentions (y-axis: mentions every 100K tweets) over the last days (x-axis) The colored areas represent periods of time in which the topic was hot, the darker areas show the time with the most mentions of the topic.
Twitter connections change over time. We tend to follow more people as we go, but we also remove connections depending our interest and attention span. At least I do.
Burak Arikan » Growth of a Twitter graph
Examples & Gallery We've included here a few examples of animations created by various researchers in different domains. Several of them include the .son file so you can regenerate the same movie.
SoNIA Examples
You just shared a link. How long will people pay attention?
How long is a link “alive” before people stop caring?
In an experiment that reveals as much about the people on Facebook as it does about Facebook itself, researchers from the Unversity of British Columbia Vancouver infiltrated the social network with bots and made off with information from thousands of users.
Researchers Flood Facebook With Bots, Collect 250GB Of User Data
From NetSysLab (This project is a collaboration between NetSysLab and LERSSE ) A CBC Radio discussion about our socialbot work, a BBC one, another one on CBC , and yet another two in German on DRK (Deutschlandradio Kaltur) and DRW (Deutschlandradio Wissen).
Cyber Threats - NetSysLab
Skip to main page content Journal of The Royal Society Interface rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org Published online before print 26 October 2011 doi: 10.1098/rsif.2011.0555 rsif20110555
Social network architecture and the maintenance of deleterious cultural traits
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Release The latest alpha release (version 0.70a) of Orbis be found here .
Orbis: A Basis for Systematic Analysis of Network Topologies
The Dark Web Project and Forum Portal As part of its Dark Web project, the Artificial Intelligence Lab has for several years collected international jihadist forums. These online discussion sites are dedicated to topics relating primarily to Islamic ideology and theology.