Workshop: “Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Creating Maps and Measures with NodeXL”

EVENT #3 (SOCY)

Workshop: “Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Creating Maps and Measures with NodeXL”
DATE: Wednesday, October 2, 2013
TIME: 9 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
LOCATION: 2115 Art-Sociology Building (Sociology Conference Room)

HOST: Department of Sociology

Guest Speaker

Dr. Marc A. Smith

Chief Social Scientist

Connected Action Consulting Group

Abstract:  Networks are a data structure common found across all social media services that allow populations to author collections of connections.  The Social Media Research Foundation's NodeXL project makes analysis of social media networks accessible to most users of the Excel spreadsheet application.  With NodeXL, Networks become as easy to create as pie charts.  Applying the tool to a range of social media networks has already revealed the variations present in online social spaces.  A review of the tool and images of Twitter, flickr, YouTube, and email networks will be presented. 

CONTACT: Alan Neustadtl

smilex3@umd.edu

301-405-6411