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Changing colors in the Red and Blue states

The CCA has posted a link to this neat animated GIF showing,state-by-state,the occupant of the White House's approval rating. This wouldn't be hard for a newspaper to do,and it's easily updated. The Changing Red-Blue MapPublished Sunday,March 19,2006 by CCAer | E-mail this post  

Following the 2000 and 2004 [...]

Design and data and presentation of it all

Martin Dodge,he of “Mapping Cyberspace”realm,sends along this helpful post:

“Hello,I've just been browsing through a fascinating new book on maps and spatialisations,many of networks,info spaces and online conversations.

“It has many interesting essays and a rich array of illustrations.

“Else/Where:Mapping:New Cartographies of Networks and [...]

Can Network Theory Thwart Terrorists?

We should have caught this on Friday,but….

Patrick Radden Keefe (The Century Foundation) offers up a good overview of the pros and cons of Social Network Analytis in last Friday's (12 March 2006) edition of The New York Times. In “Can Network Theory Thwart Terrorists?”he says that “the N.S.A. intercepts [...]

A gallery of network visualizations

Just received a reference to this gallery of network visualizations. The site is new to me,but perhaps not to all of you. http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/index.cfm 

Be sure to drill down in the “About”link for additional riches. There are hints of potential here but for the fact that much of the design is in [...]

Interesting new book on SNA

Robert A. Hanneman and Mark Riddle

Introduction to social network methods

Table of contents

About this book

This on-line textbook introduces many of the basics of formal approaches to the analysis of social networks. The text relies heavily on the work of Freeman,Borgatti,[...]

Snippets from this week’s IRE convention in Denver….

Paul Walmsley,a programming wiz at IRE,has developed a neat PERL script for doing a bit of Social Network Analysis online at the IRE site.

“JustLooking”is a members-only tool that has been up for a year,Walmsley said,but lacking publicity,it’s been pretty much backstage. The [...]

LECTURE:The Internet,Epidemics,and Kevin Bacon:The Emerging Science of Networks

Abstract:There are networks in almost every part of our lives. Some of them are familiar and obvious:the Internet,the power grid,the road network. Others are less obvious but just as important…. This lecture looks at some new discoveries regarding networks,how these discoveries were made,and what they tell us about the way the world works. [...]

eContent Magazine Review of Anacubis,Social Networking software [JTJ]

Reviewer's View: anacubis Desktop is a novel and sophisticated tool for analyzing data—and connections between data and data sources—imported from …[...]

International Network for Social Network Analysis

This page contains information about the organization, International Network for Social Network Analysis and related subjects. http://www.insna.org/

JUNG –Java Universal Network/Graph Framework software

Overview

JUNG —the Java Universal Network/Graph Framework–is a software library that provides a common and extendible language for the …[...]