By Gregory Piatetsky, March 14, 2014.

I am grateful to Marc Smith, @marc_smith, for generating the following network graph which represents a network of Twitter users whose tweets contained "kdnuggets" from Jan 1 to Feb 3, 2014.

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NodeXL automatically generated highlights (top twitters and hashtags) for this graph are in NodeXL SNA gallery bit.ly/LIPsm8

Top vertices by betweenness centrality:

• @kdnuggets @kirkdborne @yvesmulkers @jackwmson @latentview @bigdatastartups @singularityis @ie_bigdata @informs @biconnections

 
Top hashtags overall:

• #BigData #DataScience #Analytics #DataMining #BigDataCo #FF #MachineLearning #Hadoop #IBMWatson

 


Here are some human understandable highlights. The graph shows

• one very large cluster G1, with top words: data kdnuggets science bigdata analytics top scientist find learning,
• a medium size connected cluster G2, with a major role by @kirkdborne (Kirk D. Borne, Prof. of Astrophysics at GMU and a leading data scientist),
• cluster G3 which has many unconnected components,
• small clusters G4-G9 where a central role is played by one leading tweeter, including @ibmbigdata, @yvesmulkers, @tomhcanderson, @peteskomoroch
• and a bunch of micro-clusters.

 
Top links in Entire Graph:

• Data Science Venn Diagram v 2.0
• Dilbert on Big Data Analysis and Salaries
• Analytics-data-mining KDnuggets content from TweetedTimes
• Data Science Skills vs Roles map
• Learning from Data, Caltech Free Online Course, now with captions in 40 languages
• Free Tutorial: Data Science in Python
• Cartoon: Let's solve this problem by using the Big Data none of us have the slightest idea what to do with
• Hadoop: Elephants in the Cloud
• www.statistics.com/
• MassBigData launched to boost Massachusetts Big Data, Analytics Ecosystem

 
I am not sure what else does this graph mean - your suggestions welcome!

Overall Graph Metrics:

• Vertices: 1375
• Unique Edges: 1890
• Connected Components: 140
• Maximum Vertices in a Connected Component: 1197
• Maximum Edges in a Connected Component: 3448
• Maximum Geodesic Distance (Diameter): 7
• Average Geodesic Distance: 2.426217