SocialNetworkTools
From SONIVIS:Wiki
The SONIVIS:Tool can be characterized as social network tool.
As introduced the calculation of metrics in the SONIVIS:Tool is partly based on calculations in R. Also because of its predefined packages like iGraph. These packages can be used for social network analysis.
List of best known tools in network (...just started)
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Overview about existing visualization tools or visualizations
- Overview Computational Models and Social Network Tools made by CASOS Center
- Overview Programs for Social Network Analysis made by INSNA
- Overview in Wikipedia
- VisualComplexity - space for different visualization methods
- Many Eyes - for shared visualization and discovery
- Flare - Data visualization for the Web
- Gapminder shows the world’s most important trends.
Further readings: Social Network Visualization
Simple Network Drawing Tools
- Inkscape -- open source vector graphics editor
- Netdraw comes with UCINET
- SmartDraw
- yED (definitely not a simple program, but can be used as such)
- TikZ
- Bubbl -- not really a network drawing tool, but can be used as such
Another tool list
- yEd Graph Editor
- VOSON is a web-based software incorporating web mining, data visualisation, and traditional empirical social science methods (e.g. social network analysis, SNA)
- Coauth.exe for Co-authorship Analysis - software which enables you to generate Pajek files for coauthorship networks directly from ISI data at the Web of Science
- A tool list at wikiviz.org
- ORA
- Social Action
- GroupScope - Visual Network Analysis
- Condor (formerly called "TeCFlow") - dynamic social network analysis tool
- .NetMap - Performing many basic network manipulations and visualization tasks as simple as using Excel
- COSIN tools: Library for generating and measuring massive webgraphs
- Vizster (Video in youTube) Homepage here
- IBM LanguageWare Miner for Multidimensional Socio-Semantic Networks - IBM® LanguageWare Miner for Multidimensional Socio-Semantic Networks provides a unified API that helps in creating solutions for these types of multidimensional networks (people, documents, tasks, etc.) and provides an integrated platform for combining social computing, semantic processing, and activity-centered computing for enhanced user experience.
- TouchGraph Navigator 1.0 - Visualize your data in an instant by importing an Excel spreadsheet
- NodeXL - Excel 2007 template for viewing and analyzing network graphs
- social network export of facebook account
- Visual Thesaurus - interactive dictionary and thesaurus to map words with meanings and branch to related words
- NetworkX - Python package for the creation, manipulation, and study of the structure, dynamics, and functions of complex networks
Further Wiki Tools: Software for analyzing Wikis
Crawler
- Issue Crawler - network mapping software by the Govcom.org Foundation
