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From: www.connectedaction.net

Link: www.flickr.com/photos/marc_smith/6232373616/

 

Connections among the Twitter users who recently tweeted the word Palantir when queried on October 10, 2011, scaled by numbers of followers (with outliers thresholded). Connections created when users reply, mention or follow one another.

 

See: www.palantirtech.com/

 

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/6232373616/sizes/l/in/ph...

 

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:

@techcrunch

@crdant

@haroldsax2

@joffinjoy

@rayhowe

@thomaspower

@palantirtech

@palantir

@techmeme

@prestonehrler

 

Graph Metric: Value

Graph Type: Directed

Vertices: 602

Unique Edges: 1047

Edges With Duplicates: 314

Total Edges: 1361

Self-Loops: 510

Connected Components: 237

Single-Vertex Connected Components: 225

Maximum Vertices in a Connected Component: 354

Maximum Edges in a Connected Component: 1070

Maximum Geodesic Distance (Diameter): 10

Average Geodesic Distance: 3.35721

Graph Density: 0.002034262

NodeXL Version: 1.0.1.179

 

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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