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Getting Started With The Gephi Network Visualisation App – My Facebook Network, Part I

A couple of weeks ago, I came across Gephi, a desktop application for visualising networks. And quite by chance, a day or two after I was asked about any tools I knew of that could visualise and help analyse social network activity around an OU course… which I take as a reasonable justification for exploring … Continue reading “Getting Started With The Gephi Network Visualisation App – My Facebook Network, Part I”

Getting Started With Gephi Network Visualisation App – My Facebook Network, Part II: Basic Filters

In Getting Started With Gephi Network Visualisation App – My Facebook Network, Part I I described how to get up and running with the Gephi network visualisation tool using social graph data pulled out of my Facebook account. In this post, I’ll explore some of the tools that Gephi provides for exploring a network in … Continue reading “Getting Started With Gephi Network Visualisation App – My Facebook Network, Part II: Basic Filters”

Getting Started With Gephi Network Visualisation App – My Facebook Network, Part III: Ego Filters and Simple Network Stats

In a couple of previous posts on exploring my Facebook network with Gephi, I’ve shown how to plot visualise the network, and how to start constructing various filtered views over it (Getting Started With The Gephi Network Visualisation App – My Facebook Network, Part I and Getting Started With Gephi Network Visualisation App – My … Continue reading “Getting Started With Gephi Network Visualisation App – My Facebook Network, Part III: Ego Filters and Simple Network Stats”

Getting Started With The Gephi Network Visualisation App – My Facebook Network, Part IV

In the first two posts in this series, I described how to use Gephi to visualise various different views over a personal social network in Facebook using data pulled from a Facebook account using the Netvizz application. This was followed by a post describing how to and run some simple social network analysis statistics over … Continue reading “Getting Started With The Gephi Network Visualisation App – My Facebook Network, Part IV”

Getting Started With The Gephi Network Visualisation App – My Facebook Network, Part V

A comment from one of the Gephi developers to Getting Started With The Gephi Network Visualisation App – My Facebook Network, Part IV, in which I described how to use the Modularity statistic to partition a network in terms of several different similar subnetwork groupings, suggested that a far better way of visualising the groups … Continue reading “Getting Started With The Gephi Network Visualisation App – My Facebook Network, Part V”

Keeping Up with Facebook Privacy Changes (Again)

Although on a day to day basis I’m a Mac user, every so often I need to dip into the Windows virtual machine on my laptop. This generally fills me with fear and trepidation, because as an infrequent Windows user, whenever I do go over to the dark side I know my internet connection will … Continue reading “Keeping Up with Facebook Privacy Changes (Again)”

Why I Joined the Facebook Privacy Changes Backlash…

Whenever Facebook rolls out a major change, there’s a backlash… Here’s why I posted recently about how to opt out of Facebook’s new services… Firstly, I’m quite happy to admit that it might be that you will be benefit from opting in to the Facebook personaliation and behavioural targeting services. If you take the line … Continue reading “Why I Joined the Facebook Privacy Changes Backlash…”

Using Gephi to Create Bubble Charts: Exploring Government Tenders

[Elements of this post has been largely deprecated since I drafted it a couple of weeks ago, but I’m posting it anyway because this is my open notebook, and as such it has a role in logging the things that are maybe dead ends, as well as hopefully more useful stuff…] At its heart, Gephi … Continue reading “Using Gephi to Create Bubble Charts: Exploring Government Tenders”

Visualising Twitter Friend Connections Using Gephi: An Example Using the @WiredUK Friends Network

To corrupt a well known saying, “cook a man a meal and he’ll eat it; teach a man a recipe, and maybe he’ll cook for you…”, I thought it was probably about time I posted the recipe I’ve been using for laying out Twitter friends networks using Gephi, not least because I’ve been generating quite … Continue reading “Visualising Twitter Friend Connections Using Gephi: An Example Using the @WiredUK Friends Network”

Social Interest Positioning – Visualising Facebook Friends’ Likes With Data Grabbed Using Google Refine

What do my Facebook friends have in common in terms of the things they have Liked, or in terms of their music or movie preferences? (And does this say anything about me?!) Here’s a recipe for visualising that data… After discovering via Martin Hawksey that the recent (December, 2011) 2.5 release of Google Refine allows … Continue reading “Social Interest Positioning – Visualising Facebook Friends’ Likes With Data Grabbed Using Google Refine”