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Keeping up with rapidly emerging research fronts in various inter-disciplinary fields requires significant effort from scholars and researchers. These users are concerned not only with finding relevant articles or websites, but also for gaining the understanding of key articles, authors, citation information, and current trends. Several tools such as Action Science Explorer (ASE) have been developed...
Practitioners in engineering education, in studying and presenting their quantitative data, typically seek meaning — an inherently rhetorical activity. Data displays are an important part of this discourse. Visual conventions (pie charts, bar charts, and line charts, for example) can help or hinder the discovery of meaning in a data set. Our work concerns the visual rhetoric of this community: we...
As people use social media they form networks that have several basic forms: divided, unified, fragmented, clustered, and hub and spoke patterns with in and outward facing links. These patterns are associated with different types of topics and discussions: polarized, in-group, brand, community, broadcast, and support. Since each pattern has specific properties in terms of its ability to spread information...
NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) is an application that simplifies basic network analysis tasks and supports analysis of social media networks. Using the widely familiar framework of a spreadsheet, NodeXL integrates the features needed to collect, store, analyze, visualize and publish network datasets. The tool connects to a wide range of data sources and to other SNA packages through GraphML...
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