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How content is propagated might tell what it’s about

By On 16. Oktober 2012 · Leave a Comment

Memes – images, jokes, content snippets that get spread virally on the net – have been a popular topic in the Net’s pop culture for some time. A year ago, we started thinking about, how we could operationalise the Meme-concept and detect memetic content. Thus we started the Human Meme Project (the name an [...]

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Pastagram

By On 29. April 2012 · 1 Comment

While preparing and arranging today’s meal – Penne al Forno con Polpettine – to be documented and posted on Instagram, I thought: Why not preparing and arranging a pasta network with the help of the Instagram API and the Gephi network visualization software. I did this before for many other things such as Chinese [...]

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Telling stories with network data: Spring on Instagram

By On 26. März 2012 · Leave a Comment

The days are getting longer, the first flowers come into bloom and a very specific set of hashtags are spreading through Social Media platforms – it’s spring again! In this blogpost I took a look at spring-related pictures on Instagram. Right now, the use of hashtags on Instagram has not entered the mainstream. For this [...]

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Strata Conference – the first day

By On 1. März 2012 · 1 Comment

Here’s a network visualization of all tweets referring to the hashtag “#strataconf” (click to enlarge). The node size is representing the number of incoming links, i.e. the number of times this person has been mentioned in other people’s tweets:

This network map has been generated in three steps:

1) Data collection: I collected [...]

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Big Data investment map

By On 27. Februar 2012 · 1 Comment

While getting ready for the Strata Conference in Santa Clara, I prepared a network map showing the most important companies represented at the conference and their connections via venture capital or investment firms (click to enlarge). See you at the conference!

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Social Network Analysis of the Twitter conversations at the WEF in Davos

By On 29. Januar 2012 · Leave a Comment

The minute, the World Economic Forum at Davos said farewell to about 2,500 participants from almost 100 countries, our network analytical machines switched into production mode. Here’s the first result: a network map of the Twitter conversations related to the hashtags “#WEF” and “#Davos”. While there are only 2,500 participants, there are almost 36,000 unique [...]

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DLD Conference – what were Twitter users discussing?

By On 27. Januar 2012 · Leave a Comment

While I was taking a look at the network dynamics and relations of the Twitter conversations at the DLD conference in Munich, Salesforce and Radian6 took a more “traditional” approach and segmented the conversations in terms of topics, users and countries. While a tag cloud is able to give a first impression on the [...]

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Networking at Davos – 1st day

By On 25. Januar 2012 · Leave a Comment

Now, that the World Economic Forum at Davos has started, also the conversational buzz on Twitter is increasing. While yesterday news agencies and journalists dominated the buzz, this morning (data ranging from 10:15 to 11:40) clearly has been a Paulo Coelho moment. The following tweet has been the most frequently retweeted #WEF tweet:

If [...]

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Networking at the DLD conference (Part II)

By On 24. Januar 2012 · Leave a Comment

As promised, here’s the second part of the DLD conference network analysis. We left the conference Monday afternoon. The remaining day looked like this:

The conference account @DLDConference and Idealab founder @Bill_Gross still are the most important Twitter discussions nodes in terms of PageRank. But there are also some new names and [...]

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Networking at Davos – getting ready for the WEF [updated]

By On 24. Januar 2012 · Leave a Comment

The same thing that can be done for the DLD conference in Munich can of course be done for the WEF in Davos. This gives us a good opportunity to compare pre-conference and conference buzz of the two gatherings and compare actors, topics and network structures. Here’s a first glance at the Twitter conversation [...]

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Networking at the DLD conference

By On 23. Januar 2012 · 1 Comment

A rather traditional application of network analysis is taking a look at conference talk on social networks such as Twitter. Right now, Burda’s DLD conference in Munich is the best research object for this purpose – especially because Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey is one of the speakers. I began my tracking of conference on the [...]

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Telling stories with network data: Instagram in China

By On 21. Januar 2012 · Leave a Comment

One of the most interesting sources of social media data right now is the iPhone based image sharing platform Instagram. This social networking platform is based on images, which can be compared with Flickr, but with Instagram the global dimension is much more visible. And because of the seamless Twitter and Facebook integration, the networking [...]

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The rise of the data scientists

By On 15. Januar 2012 · Leave a Comment

One of the most important market research buzzwords in 2012 will be big data. Even the future of a large Internet company like Yahoo! can be reduced to this question: What’s your approach on big data (AdAge published an interesting interview with new Yahoo! CEO Scott Thompson about this topic). At first glance, this [...]

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