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Exploring social media with NodeXL Basic training April 15

Posted on by Shalin Hai-Jew

“Exploring Social Media with NodeXL Basic” is a two-hour session that introduces some of the social media data extraction and network graphing functionalities of an open-source and freeware tool NodeXL Basic. This event will be 1:30-3:30 p.m. Friday, April 15, in 401B Hale Library.

SampleGraph
This image shows an example of a network graph with small clusters of individuals in relationships and even smaller motifs.
  • Ever wonder what sorts of #hashtagged conversations may be occurring on Twitter and who the discussants are? Curious about the social networks of particular @accounts on Twitter?
  • Wonder what a public-facing social network looks like on Facebook? A private one?
  • Intrigued by a related tags network from Flickr? An article network on Wikipedia? A video network on YouTube? A user network on YouTube?

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“Tapping Social Media with NCapture and NVivo 11” presentation Nov. 20

Posted on by Shalin Hai-Jew

“Tapping Social Media with NCapture and NVivo 11” will be offered 1:30-3:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20, in 401B Hale Library. This presentation provides an overview of the NCapture add-in to NVivo 11 Pro as a tool for extracting information from social media platforms and will explore how the extracted data is analyzed using NVivo 11, a qualitative and mixed methods data analysis tool.  (The NVivo 11 for Mac now has the NCapture functionality.)

A Screenshot of the NVivo New Project Interface

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Exploring social media with NodeXL on April 10

Posted on by Shalin Hai-Jew

“Exploring Social Media with NodeXL” is a two-hour session that introduces some of the social media data extraction and network graphing functionalities of NodeXL.  This event will be 1:30-3:30 p.m. Friday, April 10, at 301 Hale Library.

SampleGraph
This image shows an example of a network graph with small clusters of individuals in relationships and even smaller motifs.

Ever wonder what sorts of #hashtagged conversations may be occurring on Twitter and who the discussants are?  Curious about the social networks of particular @accounts on Twitter?

Wonder what a public-facing social network looks like on Facebook?  A private one?

Intrigued by a related tags network from Flickr?  An article network on Wikipedia?  A video network on YouTube?  A user network on YouTube?

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“Using NVivo 10 to Tap Social Media Streams” scheduled for Nov. 21

Posted on by Shalin Hai-Jew

“Using NVivo 10 to Tap Social Media Streams” will be offered 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 21, in 301 Hale Library. This presentation will provide an overview of the NCapture plug-in to NVivo 10 as a tool for extracting information from social media platforms.  This will also explore how the extracted data may be analyzed using NVivo 10, a qualitative and mixed methods data analysis tool.

A Screenshot of the NVivo New Project Interface

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Webinar Jan. 31: Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Creating Maps and Measures with NodeXL

Posted on by Shalin Hai-Jew

Marc A. Smith, chief social scientist at the Connected Action Consulting Group, will be presenting a webinar on “Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Creating Maps and  Measures with NodeXL” 1-2:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 31, in 301 Hale Library.  All are welcome to attend.

#bubble hashtag search on a Twitter graph with motifs identified (a NodeXL graph)

 

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The NodeXL Series: Extracting a User Network from Flickr (Part 11)

Posted on by Shalin Hai-Jew

In content networks like Flickr, there may also be social network extractions of user accounts.  This will capture the interrelationships of various individuals that have accounts on the site.  This will show linkages between the various accounts in terms of cross-references.  For this blog entry, we will use NodeXL Excel Template to extract the “USDAgov” user network on Flickr, which is a peer content sharing site including photos and videos.  The “USDAgov” is likely a fairly healthy-sized network, even in a content site, because of its government mandate.

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The NodeXL Series: Conducting a Crawl of Flickr for a Content Network (Part 4)

Posted on by Shalin Hai-Jew

A related tags network on a content site shows the interrelationships between the textual metadata used to label particular images (or videos).  A content network may be built around a particular search term.  The tags are searched on a social media (sharing) platform, and instances of the term are discovered.  A graph is then created from the interrelationships between related terms.

Starting a Content Crawl of Related Tags on Flickr

To start a content crawl of related tags on Flickr, start up the NodeXL template.  Click on the NodeXL tab to open the ribbon

In the File area, click on “Import” to acquire the dropdown menu.  Highlight “From Flickr Related Tags Network…”

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