At the Stanford MediaX Innovation Ecosystems Summit today, a few visualization teams presented their tools to show how networks are really structured:
1. Gephi http://gephi.org/
“Gephi is an interactive visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs.”
2. Quid http://quid.com/
They define as their “mission to Map the World’s Technologies”
3. DotLink360 http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/ii/dotlink/
“dotlink360 is a visual analytic tool that provides capabilities to gain systemic insight into the complex structure and evolving dynamics of interfirm innovation activities in converging business ecosystems.”
4. LinkedIn Maps http://inmaps.linkedinlabs.com/network
This takes all of your LinkedIn connections and finds groups among them. The picture attached below, with five fairly separated clouds, is drawn from my LinkedIn connections.
© 2011 Norman Jacknis
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