By Angela Hey
About this blog: I write about technology companies, trends and events in and around Mountain View. Where else can you find startups nurtured by
Y-Combinator and
(More)About this blog: I write about technology companies, trends and events in and around Mountain View. Where else can you find startups nurtured by
Y-Combinator and
500 Startups working alongside multi-billion corporations like
Google,
Symantec and
Intuit? I like to write about software and systems that are changing lifestyles. Innovations like self-driving cars, on-demand limousine services and electric bikes are revolutionizing transportation. Smartphones help people find their way, manage their health and make new friends. In my articles, I like to include something for Mountain View residents, something for industry professionals and something for venture investors. I'm particularly interested in mobile apps and cloud computing. I came to California to find software applications for AT&T. I've worked in startups, advised venture capitalists and analyzed enterprise software markets. After getting a PhD at the University of London in engineering, I joined Bell Laboratories, analyzing over 400 telephone company systems. I also have an MMath degree in optimization from the University of Waterloo in Canada, and an MA in mathematics from the University of Cambridge. My husband John Mashey, is a computer scientist and trustee of the Computer History Museum. He also defends climate scientists by blogging.
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Marc Smith, Chief Social Scientist at Telligent Systems, who spent 10 years at Microsoft gave a presentation at the
CIO IT Exec Forum last Tuesday on how to analyze social systems using networks and graph theory.
If you look through your emails you will see some people who originate messages, others who mainly reply to them, others who send messages back and forth. These communication patterns can be applied to social networks like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, as well as to instant messaging, tech support forums and blog comments. Analyzing an online discussion forum can show who are the discussion starters, the reply-oriented people who answer many questions and the flame warriors (who keep posting to the same topic).
Telligent has software that analyzes enterprise communication patterns. Check out Marc's
blog on how Telligent analyzes data.
Marc illustrated his talk with a template called
NodeXL for MS Excel he has create, along with Ben Shneiderman at U of Maryland among others, that you can use to create your own network diagrams.
Once again Tatyana Kanzaveli invited a world class speaker to the intimate venue of Samovar at 1077 Independence Ave in Mountain View. You can see more events in the series here (http://www.meetup.com/CIO-IT-Executives/).
