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

[Sebastian Benthall]

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> 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>
> 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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