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Postdoc position in visualization/neuroscience
by Kay Robbins 21 Feb '11

21 Feb '11

Job Description: We are seeking two highly motivated postdoctoral fellows in computational neuroscience to be part of an interdisciplinary research alliance working to develop mobile brain/body imaging experimental and data analysis methods in support of a research program in neuroergonomics (the study of the brain and body at work). An overall goal of the research is to discover underlying principles describing the relationship of non-invasively recorded EEG brain dynamics and motivated behavior (recorded by body motion capture, eye tracking, etc) in interactive, information-rich human-system operating environments and to apply these principles to support overall performance of complex system operations. The ideal candidates will have research experience in neuroscience or cognitive science with a strong interest in computation, data analysis, or visualization. The candidates will be based near Baltimore, Maryland at the Army Research Laboratory (ARL), Aberdeen, MD, where they will collaborate with a group of Army-funded government and industry researchers in gathering and analyzing data from successively more complex and realistic experiments. Successful candidates will be hired by and will interface with academic research groups at UC San Diego (Scott Makeig, Tzyy-Ping Jung, Roger Levy, Ken Kreutz-Delgatho, Angela Yu, Falko Kuester), UT San Antonio (Kay Robbins, Yufei Huang, Nandini Kannan), and/or University of Michigan (Dan Ferris), with additional ongoing collaborations with groups at National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan (Chin-Teng Lin), and University of Osnabrück, Germany (Peter König). The researchers will be encouraged to work closely with researchers and students at participating universities and to present their research at conferences and in the open research literature. Funding Period: Salaries will be competitive. The project is in the first of five years of funding, with subsequent renewal for an equal period possible. Transitions to permanent government research positions may be available for successful candidates. Minimum Requirements: Ph.D. with research experience in computational approaches to cognitive psychology or neuroscience. Both beginning and more senior postdoctoral candidates are encouraged to apply. Preferred Qualifications: Strong computational skills with experience in design, analysis, and statistical signal processing/machine learning applied to data from complex experimental designs. American citizenship preferred. Instructions to Applicants: Applicants should submit a cover letter and CV, including the names and contact information of three references. Include in the cover letter accompanying the application a summary of your research experience and goals. Please send application materials by e-mail to: Scott Makeig, Director, Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, Institute for Neural Computation, University of California San Diego; smakeig(a)ucsd.edu; http://sccn.ucsd.edu; E-mail subject: ARL Aberdeen position. Kay Robbins, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at San Antonio; krobbins(a)cs.utsa.edu; http://visual.cs.utsa.edu; (210) 458-5543; E-mail subject: ARL Aberdeen position. The University of California at San Diego and the University of Texas at San Antonio are Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employers. As part of the application process, applicants will be invited to complete an online confidential and voluntary self-disclosure card.

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PhD Position in Information Visualization, Linnaeus University, Sweden
by Prof. Dr. Andreas Kerren 18 Feb '11

18 Feb '11

Linnaeus University (LNU) seeks PhD student in Computer Science with specialization in Information Visualization placed at the School of Computer Science, Physics and Mathematics (DFM) Job status: full time Location: Växjö, Sweden Subject Area: Computer Science with specialization in Information Visualization Deadline: March 15, 2011 **Tasks** 1 Graduate studies in the field of Computer Science, in particular Information Visualization, with a doctoral degree as the goal. 2 Research in the field of Computer Science with a particular focus on the field of Information Visualization. 3 No more than 20% of working time will be dedicated to teaching, tutoring and examination in Computer Science. **Bases of assessment** Qualification requirements: General entry requirements comprise a completed undergraduate program of at least 240 credits, including 60 credits at advanced level, or the equivalent knowledge in some other way in or out of Sweden. The specific entry requirements are at least a Master's degree in Computer Science or any equivalent education. Other bases of assessment: Good knowledge in the focused research area "Information Visualization" is a strong advantage. However, everybody who is strongly interested in Information Visualization and Human-Computer Interaction is encouraged to apply. Demonstrated working experience within the focused research and educational areas is a great advantage, e.g. within the following topics: 1 Network Visualization and/or Graph Drawing 2 Collaborative visual analysis of large data sets 3 Experiences in specific application domains and their visualization, for instance in social and biochemical networks 4 Multimodal interaction in the context of visualization Good command in English is required. **Weighing qualifications** Basis of assessment for admission to graduate studies is the degree of ability to benefit from the graduate program. Since the subject is male-dominated, we encourage female applicants. **Further information** Professor Andreas Kerren, phone number: +46 470 767502, email: andreas.kerren at lnu.se, or the University website Lnu.se. Union representatives can be accessed through the University switchboard: +46 772 288000. To be a PhD student means four years of education at research level ending with a PhD degree. The position is a salaried employment with the right to social benefits and paid vacations. The Application must be marked with ref no: PA 2011/74. It can be submitted to registrator at lnu.se or via mail to Registrator, Linnaeus University, 351 95 Växjö, Sweden, no later than 2011-03-15. The application must include a cover letter and resume. **URLs** ISOVIS Research Group (http://cs.lnu.se/isovis/) LNU (http://lnu.se/?l=en) Advertisement as PDF (http://cs.lnu.se/isovis/news/PA-2011-74.pdf) -- +------------------------------------------------------- + Prof. Dr. Andreas Kerren + + Linnaeus University + School of Computer Science, Physics and Mathematics + Vejdes Plats 7, Room B3019 + SE-351 95 Växjö, Sweden + + Phone: +46 470 767502 + Fax: +46 470 84004 + Email: andreas.kerren at lnu.se + WWW: http://homepage.lnu.se/staff/akemsi/ + WWW: http://cs.lnu.se/isovis/ +-------------------------------------------------------

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Postdoctoral Position in Intelligent User Interfaces / InfoVis - UBC-CS
by Giuseppe Carenini 16 Feb '11

16 Feb '11

====================================== Postdoctoral Position in Intelligent User Interfaces / InfoVis, Dept. of Computer Science, University of British Columbia (UBC) Vancouver, BC, Canada ====================================== We are seeking outstanding candidates with a background in adaptive interfaces and possibly information visualization to contribute to a project aimed at developing user-adaptive visualizations. Experience with eye-tracking technology is an asset. The project involves an interdisciplinary team from the fields of artificial intelligence, psychology, adaptive interfaces, and information visualization. There is growing evidence that visualization effectiveness can depend on user traits such as cognitive skills, knowledge, preferences and attention. The goal of our project is two-fold: (i) conduct user studies to identify the role of individual differences in visualization effectiveness; (ii) develop user-adaptive visualizations that adapt in real time to specific user needs, using information on the relevant individual differences as well as behavioral data collected via eye-tracking and other sensors. The post holder will contribute to the design of the user studies as well as the development and testing of adaptive visualization techniques. The candidate will also help supervise and coordinate graduate students. The ideal applicant should be qualified at the PhD level (or equivalent) and must have excellent interpersonal, writing and research skills, strong time management and organizational skills, the ability to prioritize and meet deadlines and work both independently and as a member of the multidisciplinary research team. The successful applicant will joint the world-class AI and HCI communities in the UBC CS department. http://www.cs.ubc.ca/nest/lci/ and http://www.cs.ubc.ca/labs/imager/imager.php Timescale of Appointment: 1.5 years, extendable pending availability of funding. Target start date: As soon as possible. Exact start date is negotiable. Salary: CA$45-50K/year Informal inquiries are welcome, and may be made to Dr. Cristina Conati (conati(a)cs.ubc.edu) Submit vita, statement of research interests, and three letters of reference to conati(a)cs.ubc.edu. -- Giuseppe Carenini, Department of Computer Science, CICSR #129, University of British Columbia, 2366 Main Mall Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6T 1Z4 carenini(a)cs.ubc.ca, http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~carenini Office Phone: (604) 822-5109 Cell. : 778-9949042 Fax: (604) 822-5485

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EuroVA 2011 - Call for Papers
by Silvia Miksch 12 Feb '11

12 Feb '11

CALL FOR PAPERS EuroVA 2011 - EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics in Bergen, Norway - May 31st, 2011 - www.EuroVA.org http://www.eurova.org/ ********************************************************************************************************** SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 18th, 2011 Short paper submissions, 4 pages in length (maximum), are solicited. Submitted short papers should clearly relate to visual analytics and show the integration of computational data analysis and interactive visualization. Short papers should address either focused mature and concise contributions or interesting preliminary results of work in progress; full paper contributions should be submitted to the EuroVis Symposium by November 26th, 2010. The EuroVA 2011 Conference Proceedings will be published by the Eurographics Association. ********************************************************************************************************** EuroVA 2011 (EuroVAST in 2010) is the second international workshop on visual analytics held in Europe and aims at continuing the success of the first edition, held in Bordeaux, France, on June 8th, 2010, co-located with EuroVis 2011. Also this year the goal of the workshop is to promote and advance the combination and integration of visualization and analytics methods for the purpose of problem solving in a variety of application domains, including engineering, business, public policy, medicine, security, etc. EuroVA 2011 will be held on May 31st, 2011, in Bergen, Norway, co-located with the annual EuroVis 2011 Conference. The EuroVA 2011 program will include one invited speaker from research or industry as well as short paper presentations and posters. Visual Analytics is the science of analytical reasoning supported by interactive visual techniques, which requires interdisciplinary science integrating techniques from visualization and computer graphics, statistics and mathematics, data management and knowledge representation, data analysis and machine learning, cognitive and perceptual sciences, and more. TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to * Visual representations and interaction techniques * Data management and knowledge representation * Data analysis and machine learning * Cognitive and perceptual aspects * Infrastructure and Evaluation * Applications, as far as they are strictly related to visual analytics. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT DATES Short Paper submission deadline: February 18th, 2011 Notification of acceptance: March 18th, 2011 Camera-ready papers due: March 31st, 2011 EuroVA Conference: May 31st, 2011 SHORT PAPERS SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Short papers, 4 pages in length (maximum), must be prepared using the formatting guidelines (size of fonts, illustrations, ...) which can be found at http://www.eurova.org/wp-content/uploads/egPublStyle-EuroVA2011.zip. Authors of accepted short papers will give a short oral presentation and will present their work at the poster session. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Workshop Chairs Silvia Miksch, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Giuseppe Santucci, Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy Program Committee Wolfgang Aigner - Danube University Krems, Austria Gennady Andrienko - Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany Natalia Andrienko - Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany Thomas Baudel - ILOG-IBM, France Enrico Bertini - University of Konstanz, Germany Alessio Bertone - Danube University Krems, Austria Remco Chang - UNC Charlotte, USA John Dill - Simon Fraser University, USA Alan Dix - Lancaster University, United Kingdom David Ebert - Purdue University, USA Thomas Ertl - Stuttgart University, Germany Jean-Daniel Fekete - INRIA, France Carsten Goerg - University of Colorado Denver, USA Diansheng Guo - University of South Carolina, USA Helwig Hauser - University of Bergen, Norway Petra Isenberg - INRIA, France Dykes Jason - City University London, United Kingdom Jimmy Johansson - Linkoping University, Sweden Daniel Keim - University of Konstanz, Germany Jorn Kohlhammer - Fraunhofer IGD, Germany Robert Kosara - UNC Charlotte Florian Mansmann - University of Konstanz, Germany Kresimir Matkovic - VRVis, Austria Bill Pike - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Margit Pohl - Vienna University of Technology, Austria Markus Rester - Vienna University of Technology, Austria Anthony Robinson - Penn State, USA Jos Roerdink - University of Groningen, Netherlands Heidrun Schumann - University of Rostock, Germany Chris Shaw - Simon Fraser University, USA John Stasko - Georgia Tech, USA Alexandru Telea - University of Groningen, Netherlands Jarke Van Wijk - Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany Matt Ward - Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Chris Weaver - University of Oklahoma, USA Kent Wittenburg - MERL, USA Pak Wong - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA William Wright - Oculus Info, USA Stefan Wrobel - Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany Jing Yang - UNC Charlotte, USA

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CFP 5th International Symposium on Information Visualization in Biomedical Informatics (IVBI)
by Urska Cvek 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

5th International Symposium on Information Visualization in Biomedical Informatics (IVBI) ** http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2011/IVbm.htm ** July 13, 2011 * London * United Kingdom ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission deadline: March 15, 2011 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Call for Papers and Participation Proceeding will be published by the IEEE Computer Society, with ISBN number, and to be indexed by IEEE Xplore and other major bibliographical search engines. Organized as part of the 2011 International Information Visualisation Conference, the 5th International Symposium of Information Visualization in Biomedical Informatics (IVBI) is a forum for the presentation of original research in information visualization theory and applications to biomedical data. The symposium covers all aspects of visualization and issues affecting presentation and interaction with large and complex data sets. We encourage submission of papers covering new techniques, old techniques applied in novel ways, new methods, interesting applications, and in-depth surveys. ** Examples of biomedical topics include, but are not limited to: Next-Gen Sequencing data Biochemical networks Phylogenies Sequence alignment Medical records Clinical data Proteomics, metabolomics, bio-repositories Biosignatures of diseases ** Examples of visualization topics include, but are not limited to: Comparative methods / User studies / Surveys Interaction methods Colors Large data sets Temporal data visualization Real-time data visualization ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Important Dates: March 15, 2011 - Submission of papers through online submission system May 5, 2011 - Submission of camera-ready (accepted submissions) May 15, 2011 - Early registration deadline July 13, 2011 - Symposium ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Symposium URL: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2011/IVbm.htm Submission procedures: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2011/PAPERS.htm IV 2011 URL: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2011/ ** Symposium chairs: Urska Cvek, Sc.D., MBA Computer Science Department Louisiana State University Shreveport Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Email: ucvek (AT) lsus.edu Georges Grinstein, Ph.D. Computer Science Department University of Massachusetts Lowell Email: grinstein (AT) cs.uml.edu Marjan Trutschl, Sc.D. Computer Science Department Louisiana State University Shreveport Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Email: mtrutsch (AT) lsus.edu ** Instructions for Authors Reviewing is applied to all submitted papers. Authors are invited to upload full original papers to the conference online submission system by March 15, 2011. Electronic submission (PDF) is required and should be formatted according to the instructions for papers at http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2011/PAPERS.htm . The final manuscripts for full papers are expected to be no more than 6 pages - up to 4 excess pages may be purchased and is set by publisher at 25 GBP per page. With the camera ready paper submission for publication, you agree to pay the registration fee (or reduced registration fee if your registration form is received on or before the early registration date) and published papers must be presented by at least one of the authors.

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Engineer position at INRIA Paris-Sud
by Jean-Daniel Fekete 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

The AVIZ Team (www.aviz.fr) at INRIA (www.inria.fr) - a leading French National Research Center in Computer Science - is seeking for a highly motivated engineer for 12 months starting immediately to work on a new generation Toolkit for Information Visualization. AVIZ wants to facilitate the development and adoption of Information Visualization in the industry by providing an open-source industry-strength toolkit built from its experience in research and applications. The required skills are: - expert in middle-ware and n-tiers technologies (e.g. REST) - knowledgeable of Web-based software engineering methods (agile programming, component-based systems) - familiar with Web-based technologies (javascript, HTML5, jquery, the canvas, WebML) - familiar with research to collaborate tightly with researchers - knowledgeable in HCI and Visualization, at least in term of design patterns and programming paradigms. Salaries varies depending on the experience, from 2000€ to 2800€ per month. Please, send a CV and motivation letter to: Jean-Daniel Fekete (Jean-Daniel.Fekete(a)inria.fr) -- Jean-Daniel Fekete Jean-Daniel.Fekete(a)inria.fr AVIZ Team Leader, INRIA www.aviz.fr INRIA Saclay - Île-de-France www.aviz.fr/~fekete Bat 490, Université Paris-Sud tel: +33 1 69156494 F91405 ORSAY Cedex, France fax: +33 1 69154240

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visualization faculty positions
by Lu, Aidong 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

Please distribute. Thanks, Aidong -------------------------------------- FIVE FACULTY POSITIONS IN URBAN MODELING, SIMULATION, AND VISUALIZATION Shanghai Key Laboratory for Urban Ecology and Sustainability (SKLUES), East China Normal University, Shanghai, China invites nominations and applications for FIVE tenure-track, open-rank faculty positions, beginning May 1st, 2011. Under a new campus-wide initiative, SKLUES has identified urban ecology and urban sustainability as two intertwined areas of strategic emphasis, and adopted a transdisciplinary approach to urban ecosystem and sustainability research. SKLUES views an urban area as a coupled human and natural system (CHANS), and believes that a sustainable future resides in a harmony between human communities and their natural and built environments. Its research, education, and outreach activities focus on ecology of cities, instead of ecology in cities, with an emphasis on human safety, health, and well-being. To substantiate this strategic re-orientation and re-structuring, SKLUES invites nominations and applications for five tenure-track, open-rank faculty positions in the area of URBAN MODELING, SIMULATION AND VISUALIZATION. SKLUES seeks scholars whose expertise in modeling, simulation, and visualization focuses on the intersection of urban ecology, society, and economy, all broadly defined. Especially welcome are applicants who are versed in diverse theoretical and methodological approaches and prepared to collaborate with ecological and social scientists, economists, and humanists. Of particular interest are applicants with expertise in agent-based modeling, complex adaptive systems, carbon-cycle modeling, such as GEOCARB, GIS and remote sensing based spatial modeling, spatial decision support, and geo-visualization. Basic qualifications include a Ph.D. in a related field by the start date of the appointment; evidence of a high-quality research agenda; a track record of/or potential for excellence in research, scholarship, and teaching; capability of working in a trans-disciplinary team; and competence to teach classes in English. SCHOLARS WHOSE NATIVE LANGUAGE IS NOT CHINESE ARE WELCOME AND ENCOURAGED TO APPLY. Application materials should be submitted electronically to the attention of Professor Wei-Ning Xiang, Chair of the search committee, at wnxiang(a)mail.ecnu.edu.cn. A complete application package includes a letter of application addressing applicants qualifications for the position; a curriculum vita; a statement outlining current and future research and teaching interests; three to five papers (published or in progress); names, affiliations, and email addresses of five referees. The review will begin on January 1st, 2011, and continue on a rolling basis until all positions are filled. The East China Normal University is one of Chinas primary national research institutions under the prestigious Project 211 and Project 985 (http://www.ecnu.edu.cn/english/) It offers a competitive compensation and startup package, commensurate with the candidates experience and accomplishments.

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Two year post-doctoral position in Risk Communication and Visualisation
by Donna L Gresh 25 Jan '11

25 Jan '11

Job Title: Two year post-doctoral position in Risk Communication and Visualisation Application Deadline: Open Until Filled Job Description Immediate opening for a post-doctoral researcher with strong experience in data visualisation. Good knowledge of visualisation tools a MUST; experience with software engineering a plus. Familiarity with the literature on psychology and communication of risk would be a definite advantage. The project involves designing new tools to help professionals and laypeople describe and understand information about risk in a variety of domains, such as general business settings and the healthcare domain. (Note: We are not focussed on financial risk in the banking/insurance domains.) A strong record of productivity (e.g. publications in recognized conferences/journals, presentations at major conferences), creative temperament, good communication skills and a strong work ethic a MUST. We are a multidisciplinary and highly productive group of scientists from diverse fields working in a joint project between IBM Dublin and University College Cork. The post-doc will have the opportunity to work on challenging problems at the interface of computer science, visualisation techniques, and cognitive psychology. It is anticipated that the candidate will split their time between Cork and the IBM Dublin Research Lab. Please visit our website at https://researcher.ibm.com/researcher/view_project.php?id=1260 for more details on the risk project. Contact: Dylan Evans, University College Cork, d.evans(a)ucc.ie

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ESANN'11 special session on "Kernel methods for Structured Data": Call for papers
by Fabrice Rossi 14 Nov '10

14 Nov '10

Apologies for cross-posting ESANN 2011 Special Session: "Seeing is believing: The importance of visualization in real-world machine learning applications" European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning 27-29 April 2011, Bruges, Belgium http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/esann Sponsors: IEEE CIS Task Forces on Data Visualization and Data Analysis, and on Medical Data Analysis; INNS SIG on Biopattern. ======================= AIMS & SCOPE ============ Data visualization is crucial in many real-world problems dealing with knowledge extraction. Adequate and intuitive data visualization techniques may provide much insight about the information underlying a given data set. Visualization processes are usually unproblematic when data sets consist of only a reduced number of attributes, but the scenario may become much more difficult when dealing with high-dimensional data. These are becoming increasingly common in real-world applications. Straightforward visualization can also be non-trivial for structured data such as large trees, graphs or time series. Lately, much research in the machine learning and computational intelligence fields has been devoted to the development of high-dimensional and structured data visualization techniques. Dynamic and/or interactive visualization methods are also becoming more readily available. This session aims to respond to the need for such techniques in real-world application areas for which visualization is paramount. A particular emphasis will be put on medical applications, but the submission of results from other fields is encouraged, especially if research addresses the challenges outlined above, concerning data dimensionality or complexity issues. The theme should appeal both to scientists interested in the development of novel data visualization methods and to those mainly interested in the application of such techniques to specific real problems. Session organizers: Dr. Alfredo Vellido (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain), Dr. José D. Martín (University of Valencia, Spain), Prof. Paulo J. G. Lisboa (Liverpool John Moores University, U.K.) Prof. Fabrice Rossi (Télécom ParisTech, France). ================================================ Important dates: deadline for submission: November, 24th

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software and book announcement NodeXL
by Shneiderman, Ben 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

Dear InfoVis Colleagues, Below is our announcement of the NodeXL software and new book... best wishes... Ben Shneiderman Our free and open source network analysis and visualization tool, NodeXL (www.codeplex.com/nodexl) now has an accompanying book to help students, researchers, and professionals import, analyze, and visualize social networks. "Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL" is now available from Elsevier/MorganKaufmann Publishers: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/723354/descrip tion also available at Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Analyzing-Social-Media-Networks-NodeXL/dp/01238222 97 We've had satisfying success in getting information, computer science, communications, and business students to do substantive network analysis and create revealing visualizations, while professionals have been able to develop actionable business analyses. Of course, there are legitimate concerns about how a tool as powerful as NodeXL could be used to extract personal information and business insights that might raise concerns for some people. So much data is now public, but the NodeXL interface enables connecting the dots in ways that were difficult in the past. Powerful tools have many beneficial uses, but raise concerns, demanding increased public and professional understanding of what is possible. We hope you will help in that process within the Washington, DC community that are interested in network analysis. We think there are compelling stories around Pierre de Vries' analysis of FCC filings that indicate surprisingly strong collaborations between rural communication providers, Peter Aldhous of New Scientist who used NodeXL to collect and present evidence for unfair reviewing practices around the hot topic of stem cell research, and our work with Chris Wilson of Slate to show Senate voting patterns. The NodeXL tool, a plug-in for Excel 2007/2010, which has been supported by Microsoft External Research for three years is free to download at www.codeplex.com/nodexl. Users can also download datasets used as examples in the book, or use the NodeXL interface to get network data from email, twitter, facebook, flickr, youtube, and other sources. The book describes the power of social media, gives a solid introduction to network analysis, and then leads readers through the steps of using NodeXL. The software and book combination is proving to be a real game-changer - getting instructors to revise their courses and professionals to make better use of social media. Let us know if you have any questions. We hope you will help us spread the word about this timely book and the potent NodeXL technology that lowers the barriers to making significant analytic insights about social media and networks of all types. Sincerely, Ben, on behalf of Derek Hansen shakmatt(a)gmail.com Ben Shneiderman ben(a)cs.umd.edu Marc Smith marc(a)connectedaction.net Book Description: Businesses, entrepreneurs, individuals, and government agencies alike are looking to social network analysis (SNA) tools for insight into trends, connections, and fluctuations in social media. Microsoft's NodeXL is a free, open-source SNA plug-in for use with Excel. It provides instant graphical representation of relationships of complex networked data. But it goes further than other SNA tools -- NodeXL was developed by a multidisciplinary team of experts that bring together information studies, computer science, sociology, human-computer interaction, and over 20 years of visual analytic theory and information visualization into a simple tool anyone can use. This makes NodeXL of interest not only to end-users but also to researchers and students studying visual and network analytics and their application in the real world. In Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL, members of the NodeXL development team up provide readers with a thorough and practical guide for using the tool while also explaining the development behind each feature. Blending the theoretical with the practical, this book applies specific SNA instructions directly to NodeXL, but the theory behind the implementation can be applied to any SNA. *Walks readers through using NodeXL while explaining the theory and development behind each step, providing takeaways that can apply any SNA *Demonstrates how visual analytics research can be applied to SNA tools for the mass market *Presents readers with case studies using NodeXL on popular networks like email, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and Wikis http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/723354/descrip tion

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