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23.10.07
Cool Hunting via Social Network Analysis
Peter Gloor working at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence (not surprinsingly, this is also the place where Eric von Hippel teaches) held a talk at Google about Collaborative Innovation Networks (Swarm Creativity). He explained how he and his colleagues applied the method of social network analysis (SNA) in order to identify key players (innovators) and key topics. This will then eventually lead to - according to Peter Gloor - Cool Hunting (identification of trends).
I have looked at the Tool Peter mentioned they are deploying for the SNA, but it seems that the latest version is being hidden behind the scientific wall. I am quite familiar with the work of the Austrian SNA-pioneers, fas.research, and their presentations and visualisations seem much more robust. However, I must admit that I don’t have any detailed information about Peter Gloor’s work.
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