Category Archives: tools

Pleasantly Perusing the Paper Pile with Pivots

Posted on October 24, 2012 by admin

A nice UI for browsing a database of academic papers: Marian Dörk’s PivotPaths. It arranges papers matching a search term along with a sort of linked tag-cloud of authors and other keywords for easy navigation. All the interaction is really … Continue reading →

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50 nets of Grey

Posted on October 9, 2012 by admin

Just saw this really nice blog post at badhession.org explaining how to do Exponential Random Graph Modeling (ERGM) using a sexual-hookup network from the TV show Grey’s Anatomy. I do some work on some of the dynamics packages in statnet … Continue reading →

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Embedding Webs on the Web

Posted on March 25, 2011 by admin

I’ve created a page to compare various tools for embedding a network diagram on the web. I used a small example set of researchers’ keyword associations. As always, browser compatibility is a big challenge. Most of the options I tested … Continue reading →

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Sqooshing data onto a map

Posted on February 8, 2011 by admin

I just spent some time comparing various tools for publishing web visualizations of region-coded data. I looked at some Google tools, ManyEyes, and Tableau Public. This is what I learned using my demo example. Please let me know of any … Continue reading →

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dynamicnetwork JSS Paper

Posted on May 8, 2008 by admin

Well shoot, I guess it is publication week! The special issue of the Journal of Statistical Software about the statnet package for advanced network statistics has finally been released. It is great to see the years of hard work from … Continue reading →

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Grassroots network mapping

Posted on January 25, 2008 by admin

I’m working on a project for AAAS’s Science and Human Rights Program to identify some possibilities for human rights uses of networks and network visualization. In the process of doing a quick web review of existing work, I located a … Continue reading →

Posted in network viz, research interests, tools | 2 Comments

API access to US state political funding data

Posted on February 16, 2007 by admin

The National Institute on Money in State Politics now provides a service where users can submit queries and download data in xml format. The documentation for the service (which requires setting up an account login) is here. They also include … Continue reading →

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Network Data Formats Wiki

Posted on November 23, 2006 by admin

Several weeks ago I created wiki to archive discussion and documentation of the various formats for storing network data, hopefully leading to future work converging on some common standards. For now, it is a quick-and-dirty archive to collect and sumarize … Continue reading →

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Krugal Code Search Engine

Posted on July 10, 2006 by admin

Krugal seems to be a nice project for searching code snips and algorithm implementations.  Currently mostly sourceforge stuff, I found some very familiar code ;-)  also alternate implementations I’d like to look at in detail Krugle is designed to locate … Continue reading →

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