Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL

Preface

We live in the era of networks. Occasionally the aspirations of academic researchers are in harmony with the needs of commercial developers, business entrepreneurs, and government agency staffers. In our case, the authors brought complementary backgrounds in information studies, computer science, and sociology, as well as a shared interest in the interdisciplinary topics of human-computer interaction, network analysis, social media, and information visualization.

At the same time, these topics were gaining interest from the growing community of entrepreneurs who were coping with the success of their social media commercial platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, and the equally remarkable open source communities that produced ...