| Germany
INC - capital ties among the largest 100 companies in Germany |
In the literature the German
economy is known to exhibit a close knit pattern of capital ties.
The
image shows how this pattern looks
like in 1996. |
| What
happens when a former communist country transforms to market economy ? |
Visualisations from a joint paper with Gancho Ganchev and Margarita Shiverkova. These images are based on input-output data and allow to inspect how the sectors of the Bulgarian economy and the inter-sector flows have changed during the transformation from the old to the new regime. |
| International
Football: The Player's market of the 2002 FIFA World Cup |
Football is not only big
business but also an interesting examplee how internationalization
proceeds. Graphs which
answer the question of who plays where ? and who are the most important
clubs in this market ? |
| Growth and Diffusion of a Social Movement in a Structure of Town Events | Results from the analysis of a
large database of cross linked
historical documents which allows to reconstruct and
visualize the growth of a petition movement during the 1848/1849 German Revolution in a south-west German town . An ongoing cooperation with Prof.Carola Lipp, Institute for European Ethnology, University Goettingen, and her research project "political culture during the Vormaerz and the German Revolution 1848/1849 in Esslingen" |
| World
Trade: Structure and Change |
Some first visualizations
from the
study of World Trade Data, an ongoing effort in cooperation with Thomas
Pluemper, University Konstanz |
| Hxaro
Gift Exchange among the !Khung San in Botswana and Namibia |
Visualizations of regional
patterns of reciprocal
gift exchange (called hxaro) stem from a reanalysis of Thomas
Schweizer
(Universität Köln) of data collected by Polly
Wiesner in the 1970s on the Hxaro Gift Exchange among the
!Khung San in
Botswana and Namibia. You can also view the individual
patterns of exchange as well as the
individual's
genetic relations and the intersection of both . |
| Science Cooperation | Cooperation among German sociology faculties and different sociological subdomains based on coauthorship data. An ego-centred network illustrates the first, second and third order zones of science collaboration from the perspective of a "Junior Scientist". These data sets have been compiled by Jürgen Güdler, Informationszentrum Sozialwissenschaften (IZ) in Bonn Germany. |
| Dynamics
of Media Research an abstract (
german only) of a research report by Jürgen Güdler with
visualizations
based on coauthorship data of a large database of social science
publications. |
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| Interorganizational Fields | Visualizations of inter organizational fields present my work in progress with a large database on memberships in organizational advisory boards: two views at interdomain ties between three organizational systems, governmental control of these organizational systems, and a visualization of inter-system penetration: organizational domains and industrial access. |
| Visitors
at Duisburg Zoo |
If you like zoos, this might
be what interests you. In 1982 during
my work at the University of Duisburg I taught a wonderful research
seminar
studying visitors and visitor behavior of Duisburg Zoo. We asked over
500
visitors to map the paths they have taken during their visit at the
zoo.
Here is a
map of paths visitors have followed with
physical coordinates. A gravity
solution for the same
information gives deeper insight into the visiting
behavior... |