Martin Stabe » Social network analysis

The Other Sociologist: “69 Billion Friendships” on Facebook – How Sociology Can Make This Meaningful

Martin Stabe — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:23:26 +0000

"Facebook’s research tells us about the links between a large sub-group of humanity – but it doesn’t say anything about what these connections mean."

Guardian: Anders Breivik’s manifesto mapped

Martin Stabe — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:30:41 +0000

"The man behind the Norway bombings and shootings wrote a link-filled manifesto. To show the vast spread of websites he cites, and how they linked to each other, we turned to French visualisers Linkfluence."

Punkchip: Guardian interactive review: Flash vs. web standards

Martin Stabe — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:32:44 +0000

Interesting demonstration of rebuilding a Guardian interactive originally built in Flash using only CSS.

Punkchip: Guardian interactive review: Flash vs. web standards

Martin Stabe — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:32:44 +0000

Interesting demonstration of rebuilding a Guardian interactive originally built in Flash using only CSS.

SocialFlow Company Blog: Breaking Bin Laden: visualizing the power of a single tweet

Martin Stabe — Sun, 08 May 2011 21:04:05 +0000

"Keith Urbahn wasn’t the first to speculate Bin Laden’s death, but he was the one who gained the most trust from the network. Why did this happen? ... In this study we looked at 14.8 million tweets and bitly links with the goal of reaching an understanding on how timing, along with other core dynamics can amplify the reach of a single tweet to a massive scale. Below is a visualization of the network graph showing the spread of Keith Urbahn’s single speculative tweet across users on Twitter."

New York Times: On Twitter, Conservative (or Liberal) by Association

Martin Stabe — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:31:52 +0000

"Much of the discussion about over-sharing on social networks has focused on users not being able to escape from something they have said online. But a person’s connections are also revealing, as this research found."

SCMP.com: Who Runs HK

Martin Stabe — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:43:13 +0000

"WhoRunsHK is an interactive database of a select group of leaders in Hong Kong and their connections. It is based on publicly available documents and is not comprehensive. It will be expanded over time."

Information Aesthetics: LinkedIn InMaps Reveals your Professional Network

Martin Stabe — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:51:11 +0000

"InMaps [linkedinlabs.com] is new service that visualizes the collection of a LinkedIn 'connections' as a single network graph."

Slate Magazine: Introducing News Dots

Martin Stabe — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:19:41 +0000

"News Dots scans all the articles from major publications—about 500 a day—and submits them to Calais ... Each time two tags appear in the same story, this tool tallies one connection between them. ... s this tool scans hundreds of stories, this network grows rapidly, and "communities" begin to form among the tags. ... The news network that results is visualized using Slate's custom News Dots tool, which is built using an open-source Actionscript library called Flare."

Slate: The steroids social network: an interactive feature on the Mitchell report

Martin Stabe — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 11:04:05 +0000

Slate also reported on the Mitchell report into doping in baseball using social network analysis to create an interactive graph showing links between the accused players.

The New York Times: From the Mitchell Report: Links Among the Accused

Martin Stabe — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 11:01:45 +0000

The New York Times used a network graph to illustrate how the use of steroids spread in professional baseball.

Visualising the UK journalism-blogger network

Martin Stabe — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:52:45 +0000

As Robin Hamman points out, there are all sorts of personal connections between the journalists named in Press Gazette’s UK journalism blogroll feature today.

Because many of the bloggers named in the piece also use the social bookmarking tool del.icio.us, it is even possible to visualise these connections using the amazing (and addictive) Del.icio.us Network Explorer social network analysis tool.

The dark nodes in the network above are people named in connection with the Press Gazette piece. I’m the green dot in the middle (only because I started exporling the network with my own user name), and Robin Hamman is the orange one.

Jem Stone is the large node at the top with links to many of the others. The author of the Press Gazette feature, Graham Holliday is to Robin’s 10 o’clock position, and Richard Sambrook is at Robin’s 3 o’clock.

Further exploration of the network reveals some other important nodes in the network, whose involvment in the jounralism blogger community is largely centred on their del.icio.us use: Sun communities editor Ilana Fox and Trinity Mirror’s director of regional digital media, David Black. You should really be subscribing to their del.icio.us links’ RSS feeds.

Update: Ditto Alan Connor, Alistair Brown, and Bruce Combe.

On Flickr, you’ll find an annotated version of this: