Bridges (edges) and bridging nodes (vertices) in a network are essential in connecting cliques, moderating the debate and introducing new ideas and innovations and filling structural holes in a network (ref. Ronald S. Burt). When you separate vertices in groups in NodeXL (figure), several columns are added to your “edges” sheet, mainly “Vertex 1…
Template Powerpoint – Projet de thèse
Modèle de présentation (template) Powerpoint du projet de thèse à l’école doctorale de l’Université Saint-Joseph à Beyrouth. Pour télécharger (download) utiliser le bouton droit de la souris puis “sauvegarder” ou “save as”: Projet de thèse Template NM
Converting VCF contacts to Excel or CSV
One VCF or several VCF? A VCF file can hold several contacts. So, you may have just one VCF for all your contacts (ideal) or one VCF for each contact. If this is the case, you need to merge all your contacts into one file. To do this, open your command prompt and use the…
Fixing Audio Recording Problems with Screen Recorders
This fix has worked with Apowersoft Video Download Capture screen recording program. This solves the problem of recording video but not getting any audio recorded (no sound). The fix is to enable the Stereo Mix device and to disable the Microphone in the recording devices tab. Leaving Microphone enable will also record ambient sound in…
Exercice NodeXL (Français – 2017)
Nous avons collecté 16,057 tweets contenant le nom « trump » (semaine du 28 Décembre 2017). Vous pouvez installer et utiliser NodeXL Basic (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) ou simplement Excel pour consulter les données et variables (qui ont déjà été calculées) Regarder le graphe. Que pouvez-vous en déduire ? (se baser sur les modèles présentés dans l’article : http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/02/20/mapping-twitter-topic-networks-from-polarized-crowds-to-community-clusters/). Qui sont les…
From Smart Mobs to Smart Govs
My presentation “From Smart Mobs to Smart Govs*” in the Tech4PoliticalChange panel at the Tech4Freedom conference that took place at the Riviera Hotel in Beirut, Lebanon, on Thursday 14 and Friday 15 of December 2017. *Smarts Govs is a term I have invented to describe governments, dictators, political establishment and political actors who learned how…
From “What” to “How”: A Twitter Discussion Analysis
On Nov. 5, 2017, after the resignation of Prime Minister Saad el Hariri on TV from KSA, the trending hashtag in Lebanon was #استقالة_سعد_الحريري (the resignation of Saad Hariri). The discussion on Twitter was revolving around the “What” happened. The day after, the discussion, on the contrary, was focused on the “How” it happened,…
Conference of Diya Obeid, CEO of JobDiva
It was a great pleasure for me and the Master in Human Resources and Leadership to welcome Mr. Diya Obeid, CEO of JobDiva for a lecture about HR technology in the age of big data. Mr. Diya Obeid is the founder of both JobDiva and Axelon, two staffing and recruitment companies headquartered in NY city….
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Who’s leading the #لبنانيون_ضد_حزبالله discussion?
A new trending hashtag, #لبنانيون_ضد_حزبالله has emerged in the past few days, following the televised resignation of Prime Minister Saad Hariri in Lebanon and the start of the Lebanese-KSA crisis. We briefly analyze the “Lebanese against Hezbollah” hashtag to better understand its origin and its propagation on Twitter. Our sample of 117 tweets…