20110815-NodeXL-Twitter-Forrester

From: www.connectedaction.net

 

Connections among the Twitter users who recently tweeted the word Forrester when queried on August 15, 2011, scaled by numbers of followers (with outliers thresholded). Connections created when users reply, mention or follow one another.

 

See: www.forrester.com/rb/research

 

Layout using the "Group Layout" composed of tiled bounded regions. Clusters calculated by the Clauset-Newman-Moore algorithm are also encoded by color.

 

A larger version of the image is here: www.flickr.com/photos/marc_smith/6046445369/sizes/o/in/ph...

 

A detailed list of top most between contributors is here: www.flickr.com/photos/marc_smith/6046995658/

 

Betweenness Centrality is defined here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrality#Betweenness_centrality

 

Clauset-Newman-Moore algorithm is defined here: pre.aps.org/abstract/PRE/v70/i6/e066111

 

Top most between users:

@forrester

@counternotions

@zdnet

@yogeshmalik

@michael_swart

@dhinchcliffe

@thomasmarzano

@bordell_berlin

@aharpaz

@eloqua

 

Graph Metric: Value

Graph Type: Directed

Vertices: 1000

Unique Edges: 2451

Edges With Duplicates: 869

Total Edges: 3320

Self-Loops: 937

Connected Components: 345

Single-Vertex Connected Components: 311

Maximum Vertices in a Connected Component: 591

Maximum Edges in a Connected Component: 2651

Maximum Geodesic Distance (Diameter): 10

Average Geodesic Distance: 3.52868

Graph Density: 0.002107107

NodeXL Version: 1.0.1.174

 

 

More NodeXL network visualizations are here: www.flickr.com/photos/marc_smith/sets/72157622437066929/

 

NodeXL is free and open and available from www.codeplex.com/nodexl

 

NodeXL is developed by the Social Media Research Foundation (www.smrfoundation.org) - which is dedicated to open tools, open data, and open scholarship.

 

The book, Analyzing social media networks with NodeXL: Insights from a connected world, is available from Morgan Kaufmann and from Amazon.

 

Marc Smith on Twitter.

 

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