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Analyzing (social media) networks with NodeXL

Authors:

Ben Shneiderman,

Natasa Milic-Frayling,

Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues,

Vladimir Barash,

Eric GleaveAuthors Info & Claims

C&T '09: Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Communities and technologies

Pages 255 - 264

https://doi.org/10.1145/1556460.1556497

Published: 25 June 2009 Publication History

Abstract

We present NodeXL, an extendible toolkit for network overview, discovery and exploration implemented as an add-in to the Microsoft Excel 2007 spreadsheet software. We demonstrate NodeXL data analysis and visualization features with a social media data sample drawn from an enterprise intranet social network. A sequence of NodeXL operations from data import to computation of network statistics and refinement of network visualization through sorting, filtering, and clustering functions is described. These operations reveal sociologically relevant differences in the patterns of interconnection among employee participants in the social media space. The tool and method can be broadly applied.

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Analyzing (social media) networks with NodeXL
1. Information systems
  1. World Wide Web
    1. Web applications
      1. Internet communications tools
2. Mathematics of computing
  1. Discrete mathematics
    1. Graph theory

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