A classmate of mine, Deepak Kumar, passed along an interesting article on some social network analysis software:
Who Loves Ya, Baby? To quote:
The program was featured as a work of art in a gallery show in New York City in the summer of 2002. But the data it represents are culled from mundane sources: the addresses of e-mail messages sent or received. By looking at the names of people whom you send messages to or receive them from, and who gets cc'd or bcc'd on those messages, the software builds a portrait of your social networks. If you often send messages to your entire family, the software will draw links between the names of all the people you've included in those messages; if you cc a few colleagues on a message to an important client, it will connect those names as well.
This is only one example of the interesting things I've been seeing relating to mining electronic sources to seed recommendation systems, search systems, KM systems, SNA systems.
Posted by Karl
March 19, 2003 02:13 PM