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Dancing the Bunny Hop with the NSA 28 Jul 2013 | 09:26 am
One hop, two hops, three hops... forward! According to an NSA executive, 2-3 hops/steps is the social distance that the NSA uses to look outward, into social space, from a known terrorist suspect. W...
Contact Chaining 29 Jun 2013 | 12:49 am
The latest "term of interest" in the NSA surveillance discussions is "contact chaining". It is not a process developed by the NSA, it is adapted process, long used by social network analysts. A quic....
Vacuuming the Internet 11 Jun 2013 | 08:42 am
As part of the NSA surveillance revelations, there have been accusations that many popular consumer internet companies such as Google, Apple and Facebook have allowed the NSA to "directly attach to th...
Connecting the Dots 7 Jun 2013 | 06:24 pm
It appears that the US Government, via their National Security Agency (NSA), has collected a lot of data on who calls/emails whom both nationally and internationally. The NSA's Prism program is truly...
Big Data 19 Mar 2013 | 12:17 am
The Excitement about "Big Data" is usually around the access to lots of data -- thousands, or millions, of records. Below is a hairball diagram of lots of social data(nodes and links revealing a netw...
Arrows on Twitter 11 Feb 2013 | 02:48 am
Twitter is a social network that network scientists refer to as an asymmetric network -- the links are directional, they drawn with arrows. Links between people on Twitter show direction of intent. T...
Merry Connections 24 Dec 2012 | 10:03 am
♫ O, Network Tree O, Network Tree How green your geodesics... ♫ This year give the Gift of Connection... Introduce two people you know, that would benefit from knowing one another! Network Tree...
2012 Political Book Network 16 Oct 2012 | 09:41 am
I have been mapping political book networks since before 2004 U.S. presidential election. The data is gathered from Amazon.com -- their list of top political books. Two books are linked if they were...
Community Networks 13 Oct 2012 | 01:30 am
Most community and organizational networks we see in our consulting practice have a shape similar to the network above. These are called a core-periphery networks. The core is made up of people with...
Infrastructure Resilience 12 Sep 2012 | 03:35 am
Infrastructure is an increasingly popular term these days. Whether we are talking about our failing infrastructures because of the current economic crisis, or we are worrying about targeted infrastru...
