INSNA - Personal Profile - Benjamin Elbirt

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Member Profile : Benjamin Elbirt

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Benjamin Elbirt
INSNA
637 Highgate Ave.
Buffalo, NY, United States 14215

Phone : 716 998 6302
Fax : 716 625 1326

E-mail : sarq_6669@yahoo.com
Website : http://sarq6669.googlepages.com

Bibliographic Information

Elbirt, B. S. The Nature of Networks: A Structural Census of Degree Centrality across Multiple Network Sizes and Edge Densities. (2008). Proceedings from SUNBELT 2008. St. Petersburg Beach, Florida, USA:..

Tutzauer, F. & Elbirt,B. The Distribution of Entropy-Based Centralization in Sparse, Directed Networks. (2007). Proceedings from International Communication Association. San Francisco, CA:.

Elbirt, B. S. (2006). Jacob's Ladder 11 - Multidimensional Data Animation, Visualization and Intonation Application for Creating Virtual Reality Displays [computer software]. Buffalo, NY .

Elbirt, B. S. Jacob's Ladder 11.0 Multidimensional Data Animation, Visualization and Intonation Application for Creating Virtual Reality Displays. (2006). Proceedings from Sunbelt 2006. Vancouver, Canada:..

Software & Data

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Jacob's Ladder 11	(Software)
Multidimensional Data Animation, Visualization and Intonation Application for Creating Virtual Reality Displays This program requires Windows for creating displays; however it uses a VRML Plugin for your browser to view the outputs. This program is NOT Vista ready.
Matrix to Coordinates 1.0	(Software)
This application will take any N x N matrix and create a coordinate system (Reimmann space) based on similarities of the objects. The resulting "coordinates" work such that the closer two objects are the more similar they are. Although the program will handle any size data your system memory will allow; the calculation time is rather slow on matrixes larger than 250. Other problems exist that will be corrected in future versions when the MDS algorithm used is replaced with a better one. At this time you cannot compare 2 spaces created by this algorithm because the algorithm looks for best fit without comparison considerations. Results in one may be transposed on the other suggesting a major difference when in fact they are the same. A "rotator" is necessary; but not available at this time. The download is available (Java application) with the usage information built in as a help menu. You should read about how to expand the memory space used by java if you plan on using larger matrixes as they will have out-of-memory errors.
Centrality Distributions, Chains & Entropy Calculations	(Data)
Information is provided about obtaining the data relevant to my thesis. Data includes all edge, node, chain and group centrality distributions for networks size five (5) through fifteen (15) inclusive.