28 March 2003

Social network analysis: email patterns map real corporate structure Analysis of To: and From: headers in emails between people closely corresponded to the real social structure in the sample company (as distinct from the official corporate hierarchy). Related: Valdis Krebs's work on social network analysis (to pick just one of a dozen plus other interesting projects). Also: This project maps what is happening in the whitespace in the org chart, as Tom De Marco would put it (see Peopleware and The Deadline). 12:54:05 AM     comments