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20120115-NodeXL-Twitter- Romney network graph

From: www.connectedaction.net

Link: www.flickr.com/photos/marc_smith/6706322829/sizes/l/

 

These are the connections among the Twitter users who recently tweeted the word romney when queried on January 15, 2012, scaled by numbers of followers (with outliers thresholded). Connections created when users reply, mention or follow one another. The data set starts on 1/15/2012 21:36 and ends on 1/15/2012 22:30 UTC. Green lines are "follows" relationships, blue lines are "reply" or "mentions" relationships.

 

Layout created with the "Group Layout" feature of NodeXL which tiles bounded regions for each cluster. 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/6706322829/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:

@nationaljournal

@progbuzz

@norsu2

@arlenwilliams

@foxnewssunday

@jeffersonobama

@theonlyadult

@nikkifinke

@thebradblog

@newparisite

 

Most frequent word pairs:

mitt, romney

ron, paul

super, pac

south, carolina

colbert, super

#tcot, #teaparty

romney, presidency

romney, over

repeal, obamacare

look, out

 

Graph Metric: Value

Graph Type: Directed

Vertices: 1099

Unique Edges: 5875

Edges With Duplicates: 797

Total Edges: 6672

Self-Loops: 1198

Connected Components: 444

Single-Vertex Connected Components: 420

Maximum Vertices in a Connected Component: 624

Maximum Edges in a Connected Component: 6085

Maximum Geodesic Distance (Diameter): 9

Average Geodesic Distance: 3.367387

Graph Density: 0.004338271

 

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

www.nodexlgraphgallery.org/Pages/Default.aspx

 

A gallery of NodeXL network data sets is available here: nodexlgraphgallery.org/Pages/Default.aspx?search=twitter

 

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.

 

Donations to support NodeXL are welcome through PayPal: www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_bu...

 

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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