Category Archives: tools

dynamicnetwork JSS Paper

Posted on May 8, 2008 by skyebend

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 skyebend

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 →

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API access to US state political funding data

Posted on February 16, 2007 by skyebend

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 skyebend

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 skyebend

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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