Jelly app – a new approach to social search
Twitter founder Biz Stone’s new app Jelly allows users to leverage their Twitter and Facebook connections to answer questions, and is a new approach to social search. You can download Jelly for iOS and...
View ArticleVisualizing scientific collaboration using PubMed
Last year I did some really exciting work to visualize networks of scientific collaboration in medicine and healthcare. The image shows the network of collaboration across research papers on the topic...
View ArticleMapping the contraception debate on Twitter
This network analysis of Twitter users talking about contraception reveals a heavily US-dominated conversation, with participants clearly divided into Democrat / liberal and Republican / conservative...
View ArticleThe city as network
Traditionally, cities have been viewed as the sum of their locations – the buildings, monuments, squares and parks that spring to mind when we think of ‘New York’, ‘London’ or ‘Paris’. In The new...
View ArticleWhat your social media likes say about you
In this short TED video, Jennifer Golbeck explains how homophily and the propagation of information through networks explain how ‘liking’ curly fries on Facebook was found to be one of the strongest...
View ArticleModelling the Quora topic network
Since its launch in 2010, Quora has been a question-and-answer site that actually works, and has managed to attract interesting, intelligent people to answer questions on all sorts of issues from...
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