VICINUS

Working with network data

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NodeXL data importer for social networks!

"Examples of Diplopedia content include a comprehensive collection of information for desk officers, the foreign service officers who act as the in-house experts and go-to officials on a particular country. ... Forty briefing portals help DOS employees fi

"How do you move from a culture of "need to know" to a culture of "need to share?" Richard Boly thinks about the answer to that question every day. Boly, a speaker at next week's Gov 2.0 Expo, is the director of the Office of eDiplomacy at the State Depar

For the past year and two I have noticed a lot of statistical analysis using #rstats /R on unstructured text generated in real time by the social network Twitter. From an analytic point of view , Google Plus is an interesting social network , as it is a social network that is new and arrived after the analytic tools are relatively refined. It is thus an interesting use case for evolution of people behavior measured globally AFTER analytic tools in text mining are evolved and we can thus measure how people behave and that behavior varies as the social network and its user interface evolves.

Great news browser and filter, but very limited network visualizations

Google Refine is a power tool for working with messy data, cleaning it up, transforming it from one format into another, extending it with web services, and linking it to databases like Freebase.

Statistics at the State and Local Levels Statistical resources for state and local governments.

As I have said before, I think the term "data science" is a bit of a misnomer, but I was very hopeful after this discussion; mostly because of the utter lack of agreement on what a curriculum on this subject would look like. The difficulty in defining these skills is that the split between substance and methodology is ambiguous, and as such it is unclear how to distinguish among hackers, statisticians, subject matter experts, their overlaps and where data science fits.

Stefan Sagmeister recently introduced me to a unique forthcoming book, "a worthwhile endeavor, showing scientists the fundamentals of how to design a complex graphic," he said. Incidentally, he is the designer and a consultant. The title may be a mouthful, Visual Strategies: A Practical Guide to Graphics for Scientists and Engineers by Felice Frankel and Angela DePace (Yale University Press), yet it is more than worthwhile, it is an essential guide to literacy for fields that are essential to all our lives.

Amnesty International USA and the Standby Task Force have launched an ambitious campaign to crowdsource analysis of Syrian satellite imagery for military movements, demonstrations, and checkpoints. So far, volunteers have tagged more than 2,000 potential troublespots. Is DIY intelligence analysis the future of human rights work?

A non-profit tech company that develops free and open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping.

Recorded Future offers robust tools for temporal and predictive analysis including advanced visualizations, data for predictive modelling, and fine-grain Future oriented alerts. Customers around the world are using Recorded Future Premium to monitor media on the web, understand news and forecast a variety events, track sentiment surrounding events and more.

From basic statistics to machine learning and new ways to think about visualization, the Data Science Starter Kit gives you the tools you need to get started with data. If you haven't yet taken the leap, why wait? And if you're already experienced with data, the Starter Kit will push you further. The package includes (8) titles on R, basic statistics and data analysis, Python, machine learning, and visualization. This kit includes everything you need from analysis, visualization, to management.

SNA package used for "ordinary" data (one line of data for each case) and for network data (two files - "nodes" and "links" )

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"A Seattle data technology startup is taking the phrase "know your customer" to a whole new level. Versium Analytics today introduced a new analytics platform called LifeData. Led by former InfoSpace executives Chris Matty and Kevin Marcus, the 12-month-old company is trying to help organizations learn more about their customers by using a patent-pending technology that verifies and cross-indexes large sets of data."

"Whether looking for a job or a spouse, it's more important than ever to be able to differentiate yourself and easily express what's important to you. But, sometimes, words just can't do the trick. And for those times, Portland startup Vizify thinks it has the solution. Their latest offering is something they are calling Vizcards - described as "bite-sized infographics about you.""