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Visualizing Time in Social Networks
I'm not that much into social networking, but the tool Peter Gloor and Yan Zhao have deloped for visualizing social networks looks very interesting.
Abstract:
This paper introduces TeCFlow – A Temporal Communication Flow Visualizer for Social Network Analysis. TeCFlow automatically generates interactive movies of communication flows among individuals by mining e-mail log files and other communication archives. Combining those movies with measures of social network analysis such as the change over time in group betweeness centrality and group density leads to insights into organizational dynamics. In addition we have defined a contribution index, which measures the activity of individual actors as senders and receivers of messages relative to a group.
We have applied our tool to the analysis of different organizational scenarios such as management of large software projects, sales force effectiveness, mergers of groups, and research and development teams. Through this analysis we have gained an intuitive understanding of the inner working of these virtual teams, which are hard to obtain by conventional means.
(via Bill Ives)
