Our Network Neighborhood
posted by Dave Hoffman
I’m interested in citation and network analysis, and, of course, I’m interested in blogging. So this nifty tool, that enables you to map your neighborhood on the web, is quite useful. In the figure to the right, the square box is us; the purple nodes are mostly the law websites that link to us most often; pink is politics; and green represents the techies that link to us.
The problem with TouchGraph is that it doesn’t really give you a sense of the relative connective power of the various nodes, nor do I trust its clustering approach, which seemed to be having trouble dealing with the network as I enlarged it. Maybe one of our green readers can do better?
August 7, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Posted in: Blogging
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Responses (4)
Vickie Pynchon - August 8, 2007 at 12:27 pm
this is ridiculously cool. but how did you get it to print a .jpg?
dave - August 8, 2007 at 1:41 pm
I took a screenshot of the page, and then converted it to a jpeg. That’s why the image is a little bit fuzzy.
Vickie Pynchon - August 8, 2007 at 1:51 pm
thanks; i’m willing to be publickly dumb — how do you take a screen shot?
Vera - August 8, 2007 at 5:40 pm
On Design Observer is a link to ‘a remarkably exhaustive compilation of approaches to data visulaization’. You can go directly here.
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