Category Archives: network viz

Angels of the Right v1.0

[download full map as pdf] I’m interested in making political structures visible. Trying to put those half-realized connections and linkages into a tangible form–a map that we can point to. I recently located an online database of conservative funding relationships … Continue reading

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Many Brands of Bubbly Bottles and Cans

… but only a few owning companies. Another great study and diagram of brand ownership relations by Philip Howard. …To visualize the extent of pseudovariety in this industry we developed a cluster diagram to represent the number of soft drink … Continue reading

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JoSS Visualization Symposium 2010

The Journal of Social Structure did a special online Visualization Symposium with peer-reviewed network visualizations. A good format, a great idea, and some nice viz examples. Hopefully next time there will be more submissions. I thought that this map of … Continue reading

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US Social Forum Topic Network

Michael Heaney and Fabio Rojas just released another great network map in a blog post. This one shows the co-mentions of topics (as coded by the researchers) appearing in the descriptions of panel discussions at the recently concluded 2010 US … Continue reading

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The Contractor Food Web: Visualizing the flow of Recovery Act dollars to defense contractors

Found a well-structured dataset on Recovery Act contracts at fedspending.org. Created a network map for the Awards funded by Department of Defense (except military departments) category. Also serves as a crude user interface to the data. Clicking on contractor nodes … Continue reading

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Feed & Seed

Phil Howard has built another corporate consolidation dataset, this one on ownership networks of seed distributors. [click for pdf version of network]

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Health care lobbying networks

Valdis Krebs recently posted a nice viz of the health care lobbying network surrounding Max Baucus using data from LittleSis.org and the Center for Responsive Politics. Gives an interesting perspective on who might stand to benefit from the current proposals: … Continue reading

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Concurrency and Reachability movie

View as: QuickTime | YouTube | other formats. A movie premier! Yup, this week we are releasing a scare-thriller by the name of Concurrency and Reachability: transmission in a dynamic network. Don’t let the title fool you, the topic is … Continue reading

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Oilmoney Redux

The main conference on Social Network Analysis was is in San Diego this year, so I decided to make a trip down. Was nice to step away from the screen and see old and new faces from the far-flung research … Continue reading

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Digging into MAPLight.org’s Bill Endorsement Data

Dan Newman, director of the money in politics watchdog/transparency site MAPLight.org kindly shared some of their bill endorsement data for me to explore. In addition to providing an elegant interface for accessing California and U.S. Federal campaign contribution data and … Continue reading

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