InnovationLabs — Innovation Consulting, Innovation Labs, Collaborative Facilitation, Strategic Solutions, Where Innovation Happens. Harvard Innovation Lab. Canada’s first social media research lab opens its doors - Dal News. Late last month, Dal opened the doors of its new Social Media Lab in the Rowe Management Building. The lab is the home of the School of Information Management’s Anatoliy Gruzd and his team and is the first of its kind in Canada. The lab itself was established in 2010, but now it has a state-of-the-art space for its researchers and students to conduct their work, complete with high-powered computer servers, touch-screen computers and the highlight: a “Magic Wall," a 96-inch multi-touch video wall.
Considering that the lab’s work involves visualizing social networks to show how social media changes the way people communicate and connect online — not to mention how it shifts social, economic and political norms and structures — the new systems are essential. At the core of the lab’s efforts are the apps it has developed to collect and synthesize social media data. Netlytic.org, a cloud-based text and social networks analyzer. Innovation Lab.