Looking at social networks
One thing I’ve been interested for a while are the social networks we develop and document in the modern communication era. Services like Facebook, Twitter and Flickr are not just sharing content, it’s about the networks that are build in these services. Also, e-mails and phone calls would allow us to investigate human patterns in totally new way.
However, often the problem seems to be around getting this kind of data — and being allowed to share the results you make. Luckily, I go acceptance from Helsinki Insitute of Information Technology to develop and publish my, yet unfinished ideas in the project blog. The story there is in Finnish, but I’ll summarize the one main point below.
From the figure we note, that there are two distinct islands. What has caused this kind of behavior? Are there e.g. two different departments there, or some other reason. How to study this further? Luckily the OtaSizzle research project has also other details of users, such as sex, age, survey data, which can be overlaid to this data, and look what we get out. This is, what I (and others from HIIT) will be doing in 2010.
Tags: network, OtaSizzle, research, sensors, social networks