This in the newest issue of Nature: E-mail reveals real leaders
Posted by donturn at March 27, 2003 02:09 PM...I wonder how many inter-office romances they found over at HP ;-)
Pg 10 of the .pdf shows the use of the data:
http://xxx.lanl.gov/ftp/cond-mat/papers/0303/0303264.pdf
Plotting it visually using actual names and orgs/groups would be making the data more useful, but I guess this is a pretty good start.
Posted by: Amanda on March 27, 2003 04:02 PMThe community-finding algorithm by E-mail gives an impression like "Reputation metrics" in "Peer-To-Peer".
Even though "e-mail leaves robust trace among people", it is a poor medium for group discussion, which is the critical limitation of e-mail in the utility of an organization.
Posted by: judith on March 29, 2003 10:59 PM