Movie time!

A very nice introductory documentation about complex networks. Is everybody on this planet really connected by just 6 degrees of separation? How is this possible? How similar are the internet, the world-wide-web, social systems or a cell?


Six degrees of separation from Adam Woozeer on Vimeo.

The global network of Facebook friendships

Already a classic: Paul Butler's visualization of more than 10 million pairs of friends in Facebook.

http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project_details.cfm?id=749&index=749&domain=

It's all connected: A network perspective on the financial crisis

See this visualization in the New York Times about the structure of international debt and the EURO crisis.

Very nice interactive version:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/10/23/sunday-review/an-overview-of-the-euro-crisis.html

Print-out:

Digital social networking: A top 11 technology of the decade

See this article in IEEE Spectrum about Social Networking as one of the Top 11 Technologies of the Decade:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/social-networking-friended/0

Albert-László Barabási on complex networks and the Web

Albert-László Barabási from Northeastern's Center for Complex Network Research talks about discoveries leading to the the science of networks.

Link: http://royalsociety.tv/rsPlayer.aspx?presentationid=495