Who we arePeople Disciplines Institutions

University Faculty

Computer Science University of Maryland

Students HCI, CSCW Oxford Internet Institute

Industry Machine Learning Stanford University

Independent Information Visualization Microsoft Research

Researchers UI/UX Illinois Institute of Technology

Developers Social Science/Sociology Connected Action

Network Analysis Cornell

Collective Action Morningside Analytics

What we are trying to do:Open Tools, Open Data, Open Scholarship

• Build the “Firefox of GraphML” – open tools for collecting and visualizing social media data

• Connect users to network analysis – make network charts as easy as making a pie chart

• Connect researchers to social media data sources• Archive: Be the “Allen Very Large Telescope Array”

for Social Media data – coordinate and aggregate the results of many user’s data collection and analysis

• Create open access research papers & findings• Make “collections of connections” easy for users to

manage

What we have done: Open Tools

• NodeXL• Data providers (“spigots”)– ThreadMill Message Board– Exchange Enterprise Email– Voson Hyperlink– SharePoint– Facebook– Twitter– YouTube– Flickr

What we have done: Open Data

• NodeXLGraphGallery.org– User generated collection of

network graphs, datasets and annotations

– Collective repository for the research community

– Published collections of data from a range of social media data sources to help students and researchers connect with data of interest and relevance

What we have done: Open Scholarship• Webshop 2011: NSF, Google, Intel– 4 Days, 45 Students, 20 Speakers– Great tweets!

• Webshop 2012!– Expand numbers of students and add a day– Support speakers and student workers

• Workshops: Purdue, Maryland, Cape Town, Yeungnam

What we have done: Open Scholarship

What we want to do: (Build the tools to) map the social web• Move NodeXL to the web:

– Node for Google Doc Spreadsheets!– WebGL Canvas

• Connect to more data sources of interest:– RDF, MediaWikis, Gmail, NYT, Citation Networks

• Solve hard network manipulation UI problems:– Modal transform, Time series, Automated layouts

• Grow and maintain archives of social media network data sets for research use.

• Improve network science education:– Workshops on social media network analysis– Live lectures and presentations– Videos and training materials

2012 Schedule: Planned Workshops

January 2012 - Syracuse UniversityMarch 2012 – SunbeltJune 2012 - ICWSMJuly 2012 – Lipari School on ComplexityAugust 2012 – Webshop 2012

Work ItemsAutofill Group AttributeMerge Edges by AttributeModal TransformMerge WorkbooksAutomated Dynamic Filters: Time Series Analysis, contrastCaptions and LegendsUpload to Graph Gallery++: captions, workbookGraph Gallery++

User Accounts, Reporting, RSS Feeds, Network Visualization Web Canvas

Import: RDF, Wiki, SharePoint, Keyword networks from textMetrics: Triad CensusLayouts:

Force Atlas 2, Lin Log, “Bakshy Plots”, Quality MeasuresQuery-by-example search for network structures

How you can help

• Sponsor a feature• Sponsor Webshop 2012• Sponsor a student• Schedule training• Sponsor the foundation• Donate your money, code, computation, storage,

bandwidth, data or employee’s time• Help promote the work of the Social Media

Research Foundation

Thank you!

The Social Media Research Foundation

http://www.smrfoundation.org