20110817-NodeXL-Twitter-ASA2011

From: www.connectedaction.net

 

Connections among the Twitter users who recently tweeted the word ASA2011 when queried on August 17, 2011, scaled by numbers of followers (with outliers thresholded). Connections created when users reply, mention or follow one another.

 

See: asanet.org/AM2011/index.cfm

 

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/6053172545/sizes/o

 

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:

@asanews

@sociologylens

@emerald_soc

@jessienyc

@kjhealy

@sagesociology

@asastudentforum

@davepurcell

@palgravesoc

@nathanjurgenson

 

Graph Metric: Value

Graph Type: Directed

Vertices: 185

Unique Edges: 2032

Edges With Duplicates: 725

Total Edges: 2757

Self-Loops: 184

Connected Components: 7

Single-Vertex Connected Components: 5

Maximum Vertices in a Connected Component: 178

Maximum Edges in a Connected Component: 2747

Maximum Geodesic Distance (Diameter): 5

Average Geodesic Distance: 2.186287

Graph Density: 0.064717979

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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