Thought leaders, opinion leaders, communities of practice and knowledge management. People who build communities of practice start here. DOCommunity Blog
Thought leaders, opinion leaders, communities of practice and knowledge management. People who build communities of practice start here. DOCommunity Blog
The power of connections: if you know my favorites sites and favorite people, you can build a heat map of my web, and predict the things I'm most likely to respond to with real attention. But this requires a web that's a relational database, and not a col
The power of connections: if you know my favorites sites and favorite people, you can build a heat map of my web, and predict the things I'm most likely to respond to with real attention. But this requires a web that's a relational database, and not a col
The main hypothesis states that a user's cultural capital affects her level of activity in a community and her decision to de-lurk and cease to exist in very active communities because of information overload. This hypothesis is analyzed by mathematically
The main hypothesis states that a user's cultural capital affects her level of activity in a community and her decision to de-lurk and cease to exist in very active communities because of information overload. This hypothesis is analyzed by mathematically
FOAF facilitates the creation of the Semantic Web equivalent of the archetypal personal homepage: My name is Leigh, this is a picture of me, I'm interested in XML, and here are some links to my friends. And just like the HTML version, FOAF documents can b
FOAF facilitates the creation of the Semantic Web equivalent of the archetypal personal homepage: My name is Leigh, this is a picture of me, I'm interested in XML, and here are some links to my friends. And just like the HTML version, FOAF documents can b
Features
* Easy to use Python API
* Flexible data import options
* Scalable
* Built-in reports
* Built-in data export capabilities
* Open source - easily extended
* Fast processing time (efficient use of graph algorithms)
The more I think about social networking products that are intended to expand and strengthen social connections in the name of business opportunity the more I think that they misunderstand the fundamental nature of social capital. Social capital is just t
An instructional site that teaches data analysis of social capital, as discussed in Robert D. Putnam's Bowling Alone. The site is an educational project sponsored by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Resear
When it comes to Social Network Analysis (SNA) a common practice is to use centrality measures such as Betweenness (Bridgeness), Closeness and Degree. For instance, we often represent “Hubness” (in-degree) by colour scale, and “Bridgeness” (betwee