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23 October 2008

Online tutorial for Excel .NetMap

The following event PNG is sponsoring might be of interest to readers of this blog:

Marc Smith--Online tutorial for Excel .NetMap October 27, 2008: 12-2 pm (EDT)

~Online event. Registration required, and free of charge.~

Note that there is a small chance that we will hit the capacity limit of 200, so register ahead of time:

This url also has links to where you can download the software, information on technical requirements for logging on, etc.

(Excel) .NetMap is an add-in for Office 2007 that provides social network diagram and analysis tools in the context of a spreadsheet. Adding the directed graph chart type to Excel opens up many possibilities for easily manipulating networks and controlling their display properties.

In this tutorial the steps needed to install and operate (Excel) .NetMap are reviewed. The (Excel) .NetMap add-in provides directed graph charting features within Excel, allowing users to create node-link diagrams with control over each node and edge color, size, transparency and shape. Since .NetMap builds within Excel, all of the controls and programmatic features
of Office are available. Additional features of (Excel) .NetMap generate social networks from data sources like personal e-mail (drawing data from the Windows Desktop Search engine). Arbitrary edge lists (anything that can be pasted into Excel) can be visualized and analyzed in .NetMap.

Marc Smith is the soon to be Chief Social Scientist at Telligent, and recently of Microsoft Research specializing in the social organization of online communities and computer mediated interaction. He founded the Community Technologies Group and is now part of the Internet Services Research Center at Microsoft Research in Silicon Valley. He is the co-editor of Communities in Cyberspace (Routledge), a collection of essays exploring the ways identity; interaction and social order develop in online groups.

Smith's research focuses on computer-mediated collective action: the ways group dynamics change when they take place in and through social cyberspaces. Many "groups" in cyberspace produce public goods and organize themselves in the form of a commons (see related papers). Smith's goal is to visualize these social cyberspaces, mapping and measuring their structure, dynamics and life cycles. He has developed the "Netscan" engine that allows researchers studying Usenet newsgroups to get reports on the rates of posting, posters, crossposting, thread length and frequency distributions of activity. These data have revealed a complex online social ecosystem populated by multiple social roles.

This session will provide a walk through the basic operation of .NetMap. Techniques for time slicing and filtering networks will be highlighted. You may download the Excel .NetMap Add-in and slides visit in advance of this tutorial.

Posted by David Lazer at October 23, 2008 12:20 PM

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