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Owen Astrachan
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Jeff Forbes
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Richard Lucic
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Susan Rodger
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Undergraduate Researchers

  • Dametrious Peyton, Summer 2006, Fall 2007
  • Ben Spain, Summer 2006
  • Zach Marshall, Fall 2006
  • Beth Trushkowsky, Fall 2006, Summer 2007
  • Samantha Jones, Fall 2007
  • Diana Ni, Spring 2008

Modules

We will create web-based interactive curricular modules as part of this project. Each module will include background readings, including historical and philosophical treatments of relevant computer and network science and issues surrounding social networks. These modules will be made freely available as an Open Educational Resource.

Projects

Duke Scrobbler

Scrobbler Dashboard
The Duke Scrobbler Suite is a set of tools adapted from the AudioScrobbler client that enables users to track their music listening habits through an online interface and to find other users with similar tastes and habits. The Duke Scrobbler Java client updates a user's listening profile on the Duke Scrobbler web site, tracking changes in his or her iTunes library. Using the Duke Scrobbler web site, users can find other users who like the same artist, song, or album and track popular songs and artists among the users of the site and their immediate social network on Facebook. Duke Scrobbler makes it easy to find people with similar tastes and friend them on Facebook, or use your friends' listening habits to discover new music.

Duke News: In Search of Billy Joel Fans: Duke Scrobbler software helps people with similar music tastes find each other by Sylvia Pfeiffenberger, April 25, 2007.

Duke GUESS

GUESS is an exploratory data analysis and visualization tool developed by Eytan Adar that is particularly well-suited for our work on networks. We have adapted our own version, Duke GUESS, for use in our courses. For example, In the Steven Johnson's popular book, Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter, he argues that current television shows have far more complex plots involving more complex social networks than stories in the past. The adjoining figure shows the Duke GUESS tool visualizing the social network around the show 24's main character Jack Bauer. Students can use GUESS to interactively and programmatically ask questions about networks.

Last updated Wed Jan 23 18:01:58 EST 2008