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Insight™ by Ignite is the first widely available software tool that provides organizations access to invaluable "unstrauctured data", supplementing traditional win/loss programs with new information about why teams are winning and losing deals. This unique sales optimization software works by quickly capturing, consolidating, and transforming individual sales experiences into collective intelligence. Sales organizations from any industry or region can capitalize on this data to enhance sales approaches and win more deals.

P5 will provide mentorship, advice, and an environment where good work can actually happen. The mission of this project is to increase the number of people doing this kind of work, and to encourage newsrooms to see this as work to be fostered. We hope to establish that this is a basic journalistic function and not a faddish, high-tech gizmo, by exposing talented journalists to a fully functioning department. This is a brand new idea for ProPublica. We admit we don't have all the answers so if you're awesome but some of this doesn't quite describe you, apply anyway. However, this really isn't and can't be a program that will teach non-developers how to code. You'll need the skills to hack with us and to go back to your newsroom ready to take it the rest of the way to the finish line. More Details We're best at Ruby, Rails, and JavaScript. But if you code in some other language, you should still apply. P5 is open to people from anywhere. However: We can't sponsor a visa for you, and you'll need to have a firm grasp on English in order to communicate easily with us. We'll have a Mac with web development tools and the Photoshop suite available for your use, but if you've got a complex setup, it's probably smart for you to bring your own laptop.

Bing Fund is looking for startups that are building online or mobile experiences that incorporate fresh insights. Participants are not required to use Microsoft technology. We enroll startups into our program on an ongoing basis, investing in and working with a small number at any given time. Here's what we offer: * Subsidized use of unique APIs from Bing's data ecosystem * The opportunity to access certain technology assets developed by Microsoft Research * Assistance from Bing Fund team members who specialize in design, engineering, marketing, and building businesses * Consultations with Subject Matter Experts at Microsoft, some of whom are world experts in their areas * Exposure to Microsoft executives * Connections with our partners and customers * Funding * Co-workspace for startups located in the Seattle area.

Visible is the leader in social media monitoring, analytics, and services for enterprises globally. Visible's award-winning technology and expertise helps businesses analyze social media conversations to better understand consumer preferences, market dynamics, competitive strengths and weaknesses, and other information critical to a company's reputation and brands. Visible is the solution of choice for many Forbes Global 2000 companies in a variety of industries including financial services, pharmaceutical, automotive, consumer products, retail, travel and hospitality, telecom, technology, and agencies.

Social Mention is a social media search and analysis platform that aggregates user generated content from across the universe into a single stream of information. It allows you to easily track and measure what people are saying about you, your company, a new product, or any topic across the web's social media landscape in real-time. Social Mention monitors 100+ social media properties directly including: Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, YouTube, Digg, Google etc.

Bennett is a consultant on social capital and networks, and the creator of "The Hands We Shake" lecture series on how to build, grow, and sustain social capital.  He is an expert in networking strategy and social capital retention.  As a trusted adviser, he has helped start-ups, small businesses, non-profits and individuals develop a comprehensive strategy to build and cultivate their social capital.  Bennett advises his clients on how to locate and access social capital within their present networks and create a framework for future network strategy.

Big data might very well be the tech buzz word of the year. And just how hot is it? Consider this:  Data scientist Stephen Purpura - an expert in artificial intelligence, machine learning and predictive analytics who is studying for his PhD in information sciences at Cornell University - has received no fewer than 45 job offers in recent months. And they just aren't any fly-by-night offers, with some rolling in from big-name companies touting salaries of $300,000 or more.

Sharing, searchability, timeline view, and other features make Google Calendar a simple but powerful project management tool.

Have you noticed that as we dematerialize consumer goods (that is, change their atoms to bits), we're less likely to own them? Businesses like iTunes have furtive terms of service that turn out to merely license the music you think you're buying. And then there are fee-based services that forgo media ownership entirely, such as Spotify. As visionary and Wired cofounder Kevin Kelly puts it, "Access is better than owning." 29 That sentiment is the driving force behind a new economic model called collaborative consumption, where consumers use online or off-line tools to rent, share, and trade goods and services. Some people refer to it as Zipcar capitalism, from the eponymous car sharing service wherein subscribers-who apparently without irony call themselves Zipsters- rent vehicles by the hour.

See relationships among data points: Network Diagram; Scatterplot; Matrix Chart Compare a set of values: Bar Chart; Block Histogram; Bubble Chart Track rises and falls over time: Line Graph; Stack Graph; Stack Graph for Categories See the parts of a whole: Pie Chart; Treemap; Treemap for Comparisons Analyze a text: Word Tree; Tag Cloud; Word Cloud Generator; Phrase Net See the world: Massachusetts Map; World Map; US County Map; New Jersey Map

KeyLines is a JavaScript toolkit for visualising networks. It works in all major browsers, and on all platforms, including the iPad. It uses HTML5 but also works on old versions of Internet Explorer. KeyLines is ideal for organisations who want to migrate from legacy Java, Flex or Silverlight apps to the new world of HTML5.

Kovas Boguta, the head of analytics at Weebly and a guest author on ReadWriteWeb, has created another powerful data visualization, this time of the "the pro-democracy movement in Egypt and across the Middle East." The visualization drew from Twitter use by Egyptians and influential others around the #jan25 uprising. Those writing in Arabic only are represented in red, only in English are in blue and overlap by various shades of purple. Influence, in terms of follows, are represented by lines and those who influence each other are located in proximity.

NodeXL is an open-source template for Excel 2007 and 2010 which provides the utility to create a hierarchical network edge list. With NodeXL, you can create a customizable hierarchical network graph and zoom, scale, or pan it for a more refined look of added data. Networks can also be imported or exported to a variety of file formats. For example, you can create a graph displaying a company's chain of command and structure of subordinate employees. NodeXL provides the convenience of eluding difficult applications, arcane file formats and programming language for creating such graphs. You can even import a list of your Twitter followers or YouTube and Flickr connections, to create graphs representing your social network.

Cogito semantic technology The material analyzed through the intelligence process is mostly unstructured: communications, conversations, data, news, etc., and rarely has an organized form, such as a database structure. As a consequence, the activities of analysis and processing can be highly resource consuming, and prone to error. The work of analysts and knowledge workers remains essential, and technology cannot fully replace it (and never will). Nevertheless, with new generation software based on semantic analysis, it is now possible to understand data automatically as well as to support reasoning and stimulate intuition.

The advantage of NodeXL, particularly for graphing Twitter communities, is it has built-in features for grabbing the data for you. Not only that the coding is clever enough to handle the data collection for mere mortals, so when you hit your rate limit NodeXL waits until it should be able to get more data. NodeXL also has "built-in connections for getting networks from Flickr, YouTube, and your local email. Additional importers for Exchange Email, Facebook, and Hyperlink networks are available".

Luka Potkonjak has contributed a new feature to NodeXL: edge bundling.  Following on the heels of the release of curved edges in version. 175, we now provide a way to gather parallel edges together into "bundles" that travel together until they diverge close to their destinations.

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The Manchester social networks group (MSNG) is a cross-disciplinary research group located in the School of Social Sciences. MSNG aims to discuss and to promote the application and development of Social Network Analysis methodology to answer important research questions in social science. The following SNA topics are of interest to the group: Data collection for social network analysis Longitudinal networks and network formation Neighbourhood and network variations in social and health outcomes Qualitative network analysis Social Networks and Social Movements Statistical modelling of social networks Visualising and describing social networks

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A number of instructors have been using NodeXL to help teaching social network analysis. It is relatively easy to use compared to many other network analysis and visualization tools, while still providing a rich set of metrics and visualization features. It is also free and integrates with Excel 2007, which many users are familiar with. This page is meant to collect information that can be useful in teaching with NodeXL.