[School-of-data] Social network analysis on climate change denial thinktanks?

Sun Mar 3 18:50:44 UTC 2013

 Hi guys, sorry for the little spam but I thought that question might of
interested for other people  in the field, I am currently intersted in
getting data or anything about sensiilbity (or not)  for  biodiversity in
the Chinese Public  opinion.... any leads ?

btw great app I just disovered to animate your graph : gapminder.org

Have a great week end,

Aurite Kouts
PhD Candidate, EHESS

On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Jonathan.  BTW, SourceWatch seems to be a pretty good source of
> background material on a lot of these organizations.  It's not easily
> machine accessible, but it's very rich for human readers.  For example, it
> says the NFIB Legal Foundation <http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB's_Legal_Arm> is
> actually a separate 501(c)3 (and the organization has a number of others
> such as the NFIB Young Entrepreneurs Foundation).
>
> I fleshed out a little bit of the corporate tree here<http://www.freebase.com/view/en/national_federation_of_independent_business#/organization/organization>,
> but more could probably dug out of OpenCorporates if someone wanted:
>
> http://opencorporates.com/companies?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=nfib+legal&commit=Go
> http://opencorporates.com/companies/us_tn/000273802
>
> http://tnbear.tn.gov/Ecommerce/FilingDetail.aspx?CN=154090234139101174201192155230181213016185212234
>
> Some of this might fall out of the network analysis, but these records
> could be useful for identifying newly formed subsidiary organizations such
> as the NFIB, The Voice of Free Enterprise, Inc.<http://reporting.sunlightfoundation.com/outside-spending/committee/nfib-the-voice-of-free-enterprise-inc/C90013509/> which
> is only a year and a half old, but spending millions of dollars.
>
> Tom
>
> On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:
>
>> Fantastic - thanks Tom. I've now added Freebase and Wikipedia URLs here:
>> http://bit.ly/climate-denial-orgs-twitter
>>
>>
>> On 3 March 2013 15:33, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Oops, hadn't finished matching the list with Freebase.  It's actually
>>> only NFIB Legal Foundation which isn't in there (OpenRefine suggests
>>> http://www.freebase.com/view/en/jonathan_h_adler as the closest match
>>> since he's on their advisory board).
>>>
>>> Here's the complete list of Freebase/Wikipedia links:
>>>
>>> FreebaseWikipediaAmerican Enterprise Institute<http://www.freebase.com/view/m/0p8q4>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enterprise_InstituteHeartland
>>> Institute <http://www.freebase.com/view/m/07cn1b>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartland_InstituteAmericans for Prosperity<http://www.freebase.com/view/en/americans_for_prosperity>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_ProsperityFederalist Society<http://www.freebase.com/view/m/013b5b>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_SocietyState Policy Network<http://www.freebase.com/view/m/0fp_9lk>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Policy_Network Hudson Institute<http://www.freebase.com/view/m/020v68>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Institute Committee for a
>>> Constructive Tomorrow <http://www.freebase.com/view/m/062fds>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_for_a_Constructive_TomorrowAmericans
>>> for Limited Government<http://www.freebase.com/view/en/americans_for_limited_government>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Limited_GovernmentIndependent
>>> Women's Forum <http://www.freebase.com/view/m/050dcv>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Women%27s_ForumInstitute for
>>> Humane Studies <http://www.freebase.com/view/m/02vnxj>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Humane_StudiesTexas Public
>>> Policy Foundation <http://www.freebase.com/view/m/0c9g8t>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Public_Policy_FoundationInstitute
>>> for Religion and Democracy <http://www.freebase.com/view/m/093zrf>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercatus Center<http://www.freebase.com/view/m/0b38yh>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercatus_Center NFIB Legal FoundationIllinois
>>> Policy Institute <http://www.freebase.com/view/m/043kzy8>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_Policy_Institute Philanthropy
>>> Roundtable <http://www.freebase.com/view/m/03pclm>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philanthropy_Roundtable Independence
>>> Institute <http://www.freebase.com/view/m/0cc51yy>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Institute Evergreen Freedom
>>> Foundation<http://www.freebase.com/view/en/evergreen_freedom_foundation>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_Freedom_Foundation Cato Institute<http://www.freebase.com/view/m/013pt4>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_McCluskey Commonwealth Foundation for
>>> Public Policy Alternatives <http://www.freebase.com/view/m/0275pps>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Foundation_for_Public_Policy_Alternatives
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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