2010 - July - 27 - NodeXL - Twitter - birthconf
From: www.connectedaction.net
Connections among some Twitter users who recently mentioned birthconf when queried on July 27, 2010 scaled by numbers of followers.
NodeXL is available from www.codeplex.com/nodexl
The 2010 Normal Labour and Birth Conference took place in Vancouver, B.C., Canada July 21-23. (See: www.midwifery.ubc.ca/midwifery/research/normalbirth.htm)
The conference attracts advocates for improved labor and delivery care and outcomes.
With over 250 attendees from 23 countries, the conference set out to disseminate research about the nature of and optimal care for physiologic labor and birth, and to garner multidisciplinary perspectives on the implications for clinical practice, perinatal outcomes, education, management, collaboration, and policy.
The graph highlights prominent contributors to the twitter who tweeted the term "birthconf".
Each twitter user profile photo is sized in proportion to the number of followers that person has. Not everyone is equally followed.
Each author has one or more connections, and some have many more than the others.
Network analysis can highlight those people with fewer followers but with many more connections (within this population). People like "Jennifershark" has relatively few followers across all of twitter but is very well connected here in the "birthconf" graph. In contrast, some people are both lightly followed (small icon) and sparsely connected (few lines). Leading participants, like "Midewifeamy" combine both large volumes of followers and many connections (called "degree" in network theory).
A list of the top people in the graph is available at: www.flickr.com/photos/marc_smith/4836677648/
The book, Analyzing social media networks with NodeXL: Insights from a connected world, is available from Morgan Kaufmann and from Amazon.
2010 - July - 27 - NodeXL - Twitter - birthconf
From: www.connectedaction.net
Connections among some Twitter users who recently mentioned birthconf when queried on July 27, 2010 scaled by numbers of followers.
NodeXL is available from www.codeplex.com/nodexl
The 2010 Normal Labour and Birth Conference took place in Vancouver, B.C., Canada July 21-23. (See: www.midwifery.ubc.ca/midwifery/research/normalbirth.htm)
The conference attracts advocates for improved labor and delivery care and outcomes.
With over 250 attendees from 23 countries, the conference set out to disseminate research about the nature of and optimal care for physiologic labor and birth, and to garner multidisciplinary perspectives on the implications for clinical practice, perinatal outcomes, education, management, collaboration, and policy.
The graph highlights prominent contributors to the twitter who tweeted the term "birthconf".
Each twitter user profile photo is sized in proportion to the number of followers that person has. Not everyone is equally followed.
Each author has one or more connections, and some have many more than the others.
Network analysis can highlight those people with fewer followers but with many more connections (within this population). People like "Jennifershark" has relatively few followers across all of twitter but is very well connected here in the "birthconf" graph. In contrast, some people are both lightly followed (small icon) and sparsely connected (few lines). Leading participants, like "Midewifeamy" combine both large volumes of followers and many connections (called "degree" in network theory).
A list of the top people in the graph is available at: www.flickr.com/photos/marc_smith/4836677648/
The book, Analyzing social media networks with NodeXL: Insights from a connected world, is available from Morgan Kaufmann and from Amazon.