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

[Sebastian Benthall]

Awesome. Thank you!

Since this file is quite small, I wonder if it would make sense to include
it the BigBang repository itself.

Could you add it in a PR?

On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 7:27 AM Niels ten Oever <mail at nielstenoever.net>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Sorry it has taken this long. Please find the categorized list attached of
> everything that I could easily place. My biggest problem was to categorize
> Google because they seem to transcend categories, but if I would need to
> put it into one, it would be 'content provider'.
>
> Furthermore, I suggested quite a few entries to be merged.
>
> Best,
>
> Niels
>
> On 6/9/20 7:19 PM, Sebastian Benthall wrote:
> > Thanks for this, Nick.
> >
> > That reminds me: I'm on the hook to get Nels a list of top 100
> affiliations for categorization.
> >
> > This visualization is noting affiliations of draft authors only. Not
> general discussion participants. I'm not sure if the IETF data tracker has
> lighter weight documents in it that might pick up wider participation. Any
> ideas what those would be called? Are "comments" a tracked document type?
> >
> > One thing that *might* pop out of a more extensive mapping (longer time
> scale, etc) is some kind of modular structure to the network. It might
> *not* be there, an it could be one big hairball that doesn't tell us much.
> But I wonder if you would expect, based on qualitative experience and
> intuition, any clustering?
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 9, 2020, 1:11 PM Nick Doty <npdoty at ischool.berkeley.edu
> <mailto:npdoty at ischool.berkeley.edu>> wrote:
> >
> >     Awesome!
> >
> >     My initial thought was just that it seems so sparse. httpbis is a
> massive effort (based only on my dropping in to WG meetings occasionally, I
> haven’t been following the list), how can it only have 2 organizations
> involved? Maybe that’s a side effect of your using a short date range?
> >
> >     I also noticed the entity resolution issue (with Cisco).
> >
> >     One issue with connection working groups to companies is that it
> might become overly dense. When we did this just with individuals, there
> was already quite a bit of overlap/connection, with only occasional groups
> that were pushed to the outside of the diagram because many individuals on
> those lists only contributed to them. But with looking at entire companies,
> it seems more likely that you’ll see the large vendors connected to a wide
> range of WGs across multiple areas and so I’m not sure what the
> visualization will be able to show you.
> >
> >     Thanks for sharing this work in progress. I think affiliation can be
> such a promising area, particularly if we can start to classify the
> affiliations (corporate, non-profit, academic, etc.).
> >
> >     Cheers,
> >     Nick
> >
> >     > On Jun 8, 2020, at 3:10 PM, Sebastian Benthall <
> sbenthall at gmail.com <mailto: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.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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