Comments on: Visualizing my Social Network http://billpetti.com/2009/08/24/visualizing-my-social-network/ Signal/Noise is a website that provides commentary on topics such as business, technology, innovation, research methodology and analysis, crowdsourcing & open innovation, business planning & forecasting, and data analytics. If there is a general theme that runs through the site, it is my personal obsession with information and analysis, in particular the various ways that we can separate credible information from the vast noise that exists. In particular, I am interested in how we can determine when people and organizations can be trusted in situations where they have an incentive to deceive–i.e. when the signals they send can be deemed credible. Moreover, I am interested in how we can craft better signals of our own so that we can engender trust and credibility with those we interact with. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:49:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Bill Petti http://billpetti.com/2009/08/24/visualizing-my-social-network/#comment-5935 Bill Petti Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:19:31 +0000 http://billpetti.wordpress.com/?p=317#comment-5935 Hi Amber, thanks for stopping by! I didn't use the API (not that technically inclined). I exported my contacts into a CSV file and then formatted it for ManyEyes. I just created a frequency table with the firms my contacts worked. I had to normalize the firm names (since people entered them differently in some cases), but otherwise it didn't take too much to scrub the data for this viz. I am thinking of updating this post and the viz to look at how my network has changed over the last year. Hi Amber, thanks for stopping by!

I didn’t use the API (not that technically inclined). I exported my contacts into a CSV file and then formatted it for ManyEyes. I just created a frequency table with the firms my contacts worked. I had to normalize the firm names (since people entered them differently in some cases), but otherwise it didn’t take too much to scrub the data for this viz. I am thinking of updating this post and the viz to look at how my network has changed over the last year.

]]> By: Amber Case http://billpetti.com/2009/08/24/visualizing-my-social-network/#comment-5917 Amber Case Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:56:33 +0000 http://billpetti.wordpress.com/?p=317#comment-5917 Did you get your profile data through the LinkedIn API? I've been looking to visualize my own network through ManyEyes, but I'm not sure how to format the data to do so. Did you get your profile data through the LinkedIn API? I’ve been looking to visualize my own network through ManyEyes, but I’m not sure how to format the data to do so.

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