{"id":173,"date":"2017-07-29T13:49:12","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T17:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0022\/?p=173"},"modified":"2017-07-29T13:49:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T17:49:12","slug":"network-visualization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0022\/network-visualization\/","title":{"rendered":"Network Visualization"},"content":{"rendered":"

In our Digital Learning Environments, Networks & Communities course we were to create a visualization of our current network. A tool from Socilab<\/a>\u00a0draws data from your LinkedIn profile and creates a visual graph of how that network is setup. Here is what mine looks like:<\/p>\n

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To give this some perspective, that blue dot in the centre is little ol’ me. From there each dot represents a contact I have via LinkedIn and each of those dots are interconnected to show the relationships that are shared and also how each relationship may have been created or connected.<\/p>\n

As you can see, I have a few clusters of connections as this graph was sorted by industry but what was interesting is that there are a few dots that actually bridge those industries which shows the impact of how one person can be a conduit to a cluster of relationships. They are almost an “influencer” and I’d be curious to know if I fall into that category within any of my connections visual network.<\/p>\n

While the concept for this process is intriguing, I do wish that the data wasn’t solely derived from LinkedIn and that perhaps future versions could integrate data from Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or other social media sites to help paint a more complete, and I’m sure more complex, portrait of how my digital network spans across the internet cosmos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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