First steps to NetViz Nirvana: Evaluating social network analysis with NodeXL

Proceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, CSE 2009

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages 332-339

  Bonsignore, Elizabeth M ^a   Dunne, Cody ^a   Rotman, Dana ^a   Smith, Marc ^b   Capone, Tony ^c   Hansen, Derek L ^a,d   Shneiderman, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Telligent Systems Corporation

^c MICROSOFT   (United States)

^d Hornbake Library   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMON NETWORKS; GRADUATE STUDENTS; GRAPH DRAWING; GRAPH LAYOUT ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; MICROSOFT EXCEL; OPEN-SOURCE; PRE-PROCESSING; PRIMARY OBJECTIVE; PROGRAMMING SKILLS; SENSEMAKING; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; STANDARD METHOD; STRUCTURAL RELATIONSHIP; TEACHING AND LEARNING; TECHNICAL BACKGROUND; USER STUDY;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SCIENCE; DRAWING (GRAPHICS); ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; SPREADSHEETS; TEACHING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 70849098857     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSE.2009.120     Document Type: Conference Paper

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