Tom, Nick: Can we load the email senders/recipients into that social network mapping code you guys have to see who communicated with who and how strong the ties are. It could be cool to see if we can determine who picked up the slack and was making all the decisions. At the very least we can see who knew when and what they did about it.

I don't have working code laying around to do that, but I could glue it together fairly easily.

If you could do half of the work for me, and provide me with a list of the senders/recipients that can be easily parsed, I can certainly whip together the graphing end. It would be good to include dates, so I can graph them out in time slices. It might show shifts in focus from person to person..

I'm not trying to be lazy, as much as I'm still recovering from a bad cold and overloaded with school work...

Update: After a bit of a nap and some food, I'm feeling a little more energetic. I'm working on it. It's going to take me a little while to actually plug in all the data.

RE: Brown's emails during Katrina (PDF)