[Bigbang-dev] Bipartite graphs of working group and affiliations

[Sebastian Benthall]

Hello,

An update on this. I've combined the new organizational entity resolution
feature (that has a custom distance measure designed for organizational
entities) with the datatracker records from January 2018 to January 2020.

Here's the result:

[image: image.png]
This gets to what Nick originally pointed out, which was the sparsity of
the original bipartite graph. This network is not as sparse, and clearly
shows the centrality of a few companies: Cisco, Huawei, Erickson, Google,
and Microsoft. Text sizes here are proportional to PageRank.

It also shows that most of the working groups are part of a core cluster.
But some working groups (app, gen, sec, mpls, dnsop, ccamp) have a number
of dedicated organizations that work just with them.

Somebody more familiar with IETF might be better able to interpret what's
going on here, or tell me what would best to highlight or dive into in
another iteration.

Best regards,
Seb

On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 3:10 PM Sebastian Benthall <sbenthall at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've been working with the IETF data tracker to produce a visualization of
> affiliations and working groups. I'd like to run it by you all for design
> feedback and ideas moving forward.
>
> This is a bipartite graph of affiliations and working groups for the
> period between 2010-01-01 and 2010-04-01:
>
> [image: image.png]
> Aside from entity resolution issues (Juniper/Juniper Networks), I wonder
> if anything pops out at you or of the visualization might contain more
> information in a useful way.
>
> Cheers,
> Seb
>
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