Monthly Archives: September 2009

Visualizing Campaign Contributions of the 110th Congress: Senate Banking Chairman Chris Dodd and the TARP Banks

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Algorithmic Community Detection in Networks

Community detection in networks is an extremely important part of the broader network science literature. For quite a while, we have meant to highlight the extremely useful review article written by Mason Porter (Oxford) Jukka-Pekka Onnela (Harvard/Oxford) and Peter J Mucha (UNC). … Continue reading

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Christakis and Fowler in Wired Magazine

Today marks the official release of Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives by Nicholas A. Christakis & James H. Fowler.  There has been some really good publicity for the book including the … Continue reading

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Workshop on Information in Networks ( WIN @ NYU Stern)

Finished the First Day of the Two Day Workshop on Information in Networks.  This has been a really great conference thus far.  Both the speakers and the participants in the poster session have all offered very high quality work.  We … Continue reading

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Law as a Seamless Web … Poster for WIN Conference @ NYU Stern

As we mentioned in previous posts, Seadragon is a really cool product. Please note load times may vary depending upon your specific machine configuration as well as the strength of your internet connection. For those not familiar with how to operate it … Continue reading

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Patent Citation Networks Revisited: Signs of 21st Century Change?

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Visualizing Voter Turnout 2008 v 2004 [From Good]

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Visualizing Contributions to the 110th Congress—House Edition (Repost)

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The Structure of the United States Code

Formally organized into 50 titles, the United States Code is the repository for federal statutory law. While each of the 50 titles define a particular substantive domain, the structure within and across titles can be represent as a graph/network. In … Continue reading

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Special Social Networks Themed Issue of American Politics Research

There are a number of high quality interdisciplinary research groups here at Michigan.  We are working with one of these groups — The Political Networks Lab. It is led by Michael Heaney (now here at Michigan in Organizational Studies). Michael … Continue reading

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