Collection of Social Network Analysis Tools and Libraries
| Product | Main Functionality | Input Format | Output Format | Platform | License and cost | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AllegroGraph | Graph Database. RDF with Gruff visualization tool | RDF | RDF | Linux, Mac, Windows | Free and Commercial | AllegroGraph is a graph database. It is disk-based, fully transactional OLTP database that stores data structured in graphs rather than in tables. AllegroGraph includes a Social Networking Analytics library. |
| AutoMap | Network Text Analysis | .txt | DyNetML, .csv | Any (it's in Java) | Freeware for non-commercial use | Text mining tool that supports the extraction of relational data from texts. Distills three types of information: content analysis, semantic networks, ontologically coded networks. In order to do this, a variety of Natural Language Processing/ Information Extraction routines is provided (e.g. Stemming, Parts of Speech Tagging, Named-Entity Recognition, usage of user-defined ontologies, reduction and normalization, Anaphora Resolution, email data analysis, feature identification, entropy computation, reading and writing from and to default or user-specified database). |
| Centrifuge Visual Network Analytics | Visual Network Analytics | Any data source that supports connection through JDBC | Web Browser, CSV data, PNG images, published visualizations for collaboration, URL images which include visualizations | Windows and Linux | Free Evaluations, commercial and government editions, enterprise licensing and OEM licensing | Centrifuge Visual Network Analytics (VNA) help organizations discover insights, patterns and relationships hidden in public, cloud, social network and enterprise data. Centrifuge® Systems delivers a unique approach to interactive data visualization – Combining agile data integration, dynamic relationship mapping, and interactive visual analytics to reveal insights in big data. Using Centrifuge visualizations and link intelligence, analysts discover, measure and communicate risk and fraud.
Centrifuge solves challenging visual network, relationship mapping and data analysis problems in the areas of fraud and money laundering, organized retail crime, pharma risk analysis, intelligence analysis, cyber security and other domains. Centrifuge actively partners with software companies, information providers and others looking to enhance their solutions by embedding Centrifuge visualizations |
| CFinder | Finding and visualizing communities | .txt | .txt, .pfd, .ps, .svg, .svg, .emf, .gif, .raw, .ppm, .bmp, .jpg,.png, .wbmp | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Solaris | Freeware for non-commercial use | A software for finding and visualizing overlapping dense communities in networks, based on the clique percolation method. It enables customizable visualization and allows easy strolling over the found communities. The package contains a command line version of the program as well, suitable for scripting. |
| C-IKNOW | Survey design, data collection, visualization, recommendation. | .DL, .txt GraphML | .DL, .txt GraphML | Mac, Windows, Linux | Free and Commercial | C-IKNOW is a powerful web-based software tool for social network analysis investigation. It has been designed around real-world problems, and it can store and analyze virtually any type of network data. The documentation provides a basic step-by-step walkthrough of how to get started on a C-IKNOW project as well as more advanced support, including the C-IKNOW Question-Type Primer. C-IKNOW’s visualization and analytics suite allows both administrators and users to access visualizations, recommendation tools, and analytical measures for their networks. |
| Commetrix | Dynamic network visualization & analysis | Commetrix-Files, direct import from data sources/DB's, (standard DB and File Specs upcoming) | CSV Tables for SNA Metrics over time,(Graph Videos per Screencast), Keywords, Graphs, etc. in GUI | Any system supporting java (developed for Windows Platform) | Free trial, commercial licenses, free research collaboration (in beta-user group), | Commetrix is a Software Framework and Tool for Dynamic Network Analysis and Visualization. It provides easy exploratory access to network graphs and has been applied to study co-authorship, Instant Messaging, manual SNA surveys, e-mail, newsgroups, etc. Each node and each linking event can have properties, e.g. types of messages or rank of nodes, but also types, topics, or time stamps. This allows animations of network growth, structural change, and topic diffusion. A short introductory video is available on the website. |
| CoSBiLab Graph | Network visualization, analysis and manipulation | .dot, .txt, .dl(UCINet), .spec(BetaWB), .txt (MRMC) | .dot, .txt, .dl(UCINet), .txt (MRMC), .pm(PRISM), .png | Windows (.NET 3.5 required) | Freeware for non-commercial use | CoSBiLab Graph is an application for visualization analysis and manipulation of networks. It provides a high customizable graphical representation of networks based on local properties. Nodes can be aggregated and arranged on the space manually or by choosing from a list of predefined layouts. A set of indices is provided for measuring the positional importance of nodes in the network and they can be combined together defining new mathematical expressions. The manual and a set of examples are available on the website. |
| Cuttlefish | Dynamic network visualization and simulations using different layouts | cxf, pajek, graphml, MySQL, PostgreSQL, | tikz, jpeg, cxf, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Commetrix CSV, | Any system supporting Java | GNU General Public License | Cuttlefish is a network workbench application that visualizes the networks with some of the best known layout algorithms. It allows detailed visualizations of the network data, interactive manipulation of the layout, graph edition and process visualization as well as different input methods and outputs in tex using Tikz and PSTricks. It is developed by the Chair of Systems Design of ETH Zürich, a research group that applies a complex system approach to investigate economic and social networks. |
| Cytoscape | General complex network data integration, analysis, and visualization. | SIF (Simple Interaction Format, GraphML, XGMML, GML, KGML, SBML, BioPAX, Excel, and text tables (including csv, tab delimited tables) | SIF, XGMML, GML, GraphML, Cytoscape Session(.cys), vector/bitmap images including jpg, png, pdf, ps. | Any system supporting Java | Open source (LGPL) | An open source platform for complex network data integration, analysis, and visualization. Originally Cytoscape was developed for bioinformatics research and now it is a problem domain independent platform. Many plugins are available for users and developers can expand its functionality by writing them. |
| Deep Email Miner | Social Network Analysis and text mining of an Email corpus | MySQL database | pajek and MySQL database | Any system supporting Java | GPL V2 | A software solution for the multistaged analysis of an Email Corpus. Social network analysis and text mining techniques are connected to enable an in depth view into the underlying information. |
| Detica NetReveal | Social Network Analysis for insurance or banking fraud, crime detection, intelligence, tax evasion, border control and network risk based targeting | csv, txt, XML and databases | csv, txt, XML and native Oracle database | Any system supporting Java | Commercial | A platform that can process billions (often at national scale) of multi-format data sources and builds social networks. In doing so, a single view of entity (customer, business, telephone, bank account, vehicle, address, citizen, etc.) can be generated across multiple, poor quality data sources. Social networks and entities can be scored using a range of powerful analytics and a full free text entity centric search is available across all records. The platform includes network visualization tools, workflow and real time rules engine to score incoming events in real time. |
| DEX | Graph database for query processing and network analysis. | csv, jdbc | csv, graphml, graphviz | Linux, Windows & Mac OS | Free evaluation version (up to 1 Million nodes, no restriction on edges, 1 concurrent user). For larger graphs or commercial ask for licenses quotation. | DEX is a high-performance graph database written in Java and C++ . One of its main characteristics is its performance storage and retrieval for large graphs, in the order of billions of nodes, edges and attributes, allowing the analysis of large scale networks. |
| EpiFast | EpiFast is a model that simulates the spread of an infectious disease across a social network - see Stephen Eubank and Keith Bisset at Virginia Tech. | (add) | (add) | (add) | (add) | See the journal article from the SC '08 Proceedings of the 2008 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing - . |
| Discourse Network Analyzer | Extract networks from structured text data | Text via copy&paste, .DNA files (a simple XML format) | DL, GraphML, CSV, Commetrix SQL, SON (Sonia) | Any system supporting Java 1.6 | Freeware | Discourse Network Analyzer serves two purposes: manually coding text data for statements of actors in a QDA-like fashion, and exporting one- or two-mode networks from these structured data. Dynamic algorithms for the longitudinal analysis of discourses are available. |
| DyNet | Data analysis | *.agf(proprietary), *.net(pajek), *.txt | *.agf(proprietary), *.net(pajek), *.txt | ? | Proprietary(starting from $3000/user) | DyNet SE (Standard Edition) is an innovative software tool to analyse pools of complex data unveiling relations and interconnections via graphical and verbose outputs. DyNet SE is based on social network theory therefore relational data is visualised in terms of networks. |
| EgoNet Active Development or Explanation | Ego-centric network analysis | Conducts interviews or takes any valid XML file | Output to CSV and convertible to almost any other format | Any system supporting Java | Open Source, seeking contributors | Egonet is a program for the collection and analysis of egocentric network data. Egonet contains facilities to assist in creating the questionnaire, collecting the data and providing general global network measures and data matrixes that can be used in further analysis by other software programs. |
| EveSim | EvESimulator | XML, SimCase | XML | Any system supporting Java | Open Source | The EvESimulator provides a simulation framework for biologically inspired P2P systems - the EvE as a part of the DBE. Although its focus is on the EvE, the EvESimulator simulates a DBE. Besides from that, the EvESimulator constitutes a collaborative platform for interdisciplinary research acting as a framework for understanding, visualising and presenting the DBE concepts to contributors. |
| FirmNet Online | Social Network Analysis survey, visualization & reports. | Survey data collected via online questionnaire | png, jpg, svg network images | Any browser | Commercial. Academic research supported | FirmNet Online (FNO) is a fully web-based Organizational Network Analysis tool for consultants. Online ONA survey, network visualization and reports integrated into one process based platform. Consultants can start using FNO after a certification training. |
| Future Point Systems | Visual analytics platform called Starlight for all-source analysis, including social network analysis (SNA) | Virtually any format, including MSFT Office, PDF, XML, .txt, database, HTML, web services, POP or IMAP mail servers, RSS, ESRI SHP | XML, CSV, ESRI SHP, KML, copy to clipboard, web reports, PDF, .jpg, .bmp, .png | Windows | Government GSA pricing and commercial pricing | Starlight is a visual analytics platform that transforms data into actionable intelligence. SNA capabilities include centrality, path-finding and metrics support. |
| FNA | Online platform for network analysis of financial transaction, trade or link data. | Arc list (.csv, .txt), Matrix (.txt), Pajek (.net), Graphml (.graphml) - from files or any JDBC database | Arc list (.csv, .txt), Matrix (.txt), Pajek (.net), Graphml (.graphml) - to files or any JDBC database | Linux, Windows, IE9-/Chrome/Firefox 3.6- | Proprietary or Web Service | FNA is an analytics platform that helps financial institutions and regulators manage and understand financial data with network analysis and visualization. Its particularly suited for the analysis of large transaction, trade or link databases in finance and for monitoring continuous data via dashboards. You can use FNA for free online at http://www.fna.fi. |
| Gephi | Graph exploration and manipulation software | GraphViz(.dot), Graphlet(.gml), GUESS(.gdf), LEDA(.gml), NetworkX(.graphml, .net), NodeXL(.graphml, .net), Pajek(.net, .gml), Sonivis(.graphml), Tulip(.tlp, .dot), UCINET(.dl), yEd(.gml), Gephi (.gexf), Edge list(.csv), databases | GUESS(.gdf), Gephi(.gexf), .svg, .png | Any system supporting Java 1.6 and OpenGL | Open Source (GPL3), seeking contributors | Gephi is an interactive visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs. It is a tool for people that have to explore and understand graphs. The user interacts with the representation, manipulate the structures, shapes and colors to reveal hidden properties. It uses a 3D render engine to display large networks in real-time and to speed up the exploration. A flexible and multi-task architecture brings new possibilities to work with complex data sets and produce valuable visual results. |
| GraphStream | Dynamic Graph Library | GraphStream(.dgs), GraphViz(.dot), Graphlet(.gml), edge list | GraphStream(.dgs), GraphViz(.dot), Graphlet(.gml), image sequence | Any system supporting Java | Open Source | With GraphStream you deal with graphs. Static and Dynamic.
You create them from scratch, from a file or any source. You display and render them. |
| Graph-tool | Python module for efficient analysis and visualization of graphs. | GraphViz(.dot), GraphML | GraphViz(.dot), GraphML, .bmp, .canon, .cmap, .eps, .fig, .gd, .gd2, .gif, .gtk, .ico, .imap, .cmapx, .ismap, .jpeg, .pdf, .plain, .png, .ps, .ps2, .svg, .svgz, .tif, .vml, .vmlz, .vrml, .wbmp, .xlib | GNU/Linux, Mac | Free Software (GPL3) | Graph-tool is a python module for efficient analysis of graphs. Its core data structures and algorithms are implemented in C++, with heavy use of Template metaprogramming, based on the Boost Graph Library. It contains a comprehensive list of algorithms. |
| Graphviz | Graph vizualisation software | GraphViz(.dot) | .bmp, .canon, .cmap, .eps, .fig, .gd, .gd2, .gif, .gtk, .ico, .imap, .cmapx, .ismap, .jpeg, .pdf, .plain, .png, .ps, .ps2, .svg, .svgz, .tif, .vml, .vmlz, .vrml, .wbmp, .xlib | Linux, Mac, Windows | Open Source (CPL) | Graphviz is open source graph visualization framework. It has several main graph layout programs suitable for social network visualization. |
| iDETECT | Visual Network Analytics | Any structured and unstructured data sources, Database-agnostic | Web Browser, CSV data, published visualizations for collaboration | Any platform supporting Java (back-end), Web-browser (front-end) | Commercial | iDETECT provides next-generation investigative monitoring and analysis platform. Its technology empowers financial institutions, private sector businesses and government agencies to monitor, detect, investigate, and defeat the most sophisticated forms of crimes - often those which have never been found before. iDETECT is redefining the ways of extracting actionable intelligence from structured and unstructured data through innovative analytics processes. |
| Idiro SNA Plus | Highly scalable Social Network Analysis for Telecoms | All databases e.g. Oracle, DB2, Teradata & flat file | All databases & flat text Files | Linux | Commercial | Idiro SNA Plus is the market leading SNA platform for telecoms with a particular focus on churn prediction, viral marketing, acquisition and family unit identification. Idiro SNA Plus takes social network analysis from academia and into the realm of business where the focus is on deriving real value from the application of SNA to real-world problems. With Idiro SNA Plus users can do the following:
1. Churn - Predict churners and quantify the damage a person would cause if they were to churn 2. Viral marketing - Identify key influencers for viral marketing 3. Family units - Identify family units for marketing purposes 4. Acquisition - Identify targets for member-get-member campaigns 5. Rotational churn - Identify rotational churners |
| igraph | Analysis and visualization of very large networks | .txt (edge list), .graphml, .gml, .ncol, .lgl, .net | .txt (edge list), .graphml, .dot. .gml, .ncol, .lgl, .net | Windows, Linux, Mac OS X | Open source (GNU GPL) | igraph is a C library for the analysis of large networks. It includes fast implementations for classic graph theory problems and recent network analysis methods like community structure search, cohesive blocking, structural holes, dyad and triad census and motif count estimation. Higher level interfaces are available for R, Python, and Ruby. |
| iPoint | Analysis and visualization of social networks trends, geo-location, age, gender and sentiment | Take any valid XML | XML, Flex | Windows, Linux, Mac OS X | Commercial | iPoint monitors and analyzes Consumer Generated Media, the full privacy of the author is maintained and its reporting dashboard reads from iMediaStreams web services. The analysis is easily viewed and managed from the worldwide, to the state, to the hyperlocal neighborhood level. |
| InFlow | Interactive network mapping and network metrics in one integrated application for social and organizational network analysis. | Easy data import from Microsoft Office and CSV files | Export graphics to Microsoft Office -- Powerpoint, Word, Visio—and network files to interactive Java applet for WWW | Windows 2000, XP, Vista | Commercial, Site, and Academic licenses available. Training & Mentoring in social network analysis, data gathering, and software application, is also available. | InFlow is intended for business users, and is designed for ease-of-use, multiple networks per node set, and what-if capabilities. Network data can be entered via 1) CSV files, from data bases and spreadsheets, 2) automated survey tools such as NetworkGenie, Optimice, etc. 3) data entry screens with paper surveys, or 4) drawn by hand with mouse, using node & link tools in graphics window. Most popular network metrics included: Density, Geodesics, Freeman Centralities, Watts-Strogatz Small World, Structural Equivalence, Cluster Analysis, Krackhardt E/I Ratio, and Krebs Reach & Weighted Average Path Length. Metrics are executed based on current network view—you measure what is mapped. Many network layouts are possible using automated algorithms and geometric layouts resulting in an unlimited number of custom views. Different actions can be taken on selected nodes vs. unselected nodes. |
| Java Universal Network/Graph (JUNG) Framework | network and graph manipulation, analysis, and visualization | built-in support for GraphML, Pajek, and some text formats; user can create parsers for any desired format | built-in support for GraphML, Pajek, and some text formats; user can create exporters for any desired format | Any platform supporting Java | Open source (BSD license) | JUNG is a Java API and library that provides a common and extensible language for the modeling, analysis, and visualization of relational data. It supports a variety of graph types (including hypergraphs), supports graph elements of any type and with any properties, enables customizable visualizations, and includes algorithms from graph theory, data mining, and social network analysis (e.g., clustering, decomposition, optimization, random graph generation, statistical analysis, distances, flows, and centrality (PageRank, HITS, etc.)). It is limited only by the amount of memory allocated to Java. |
| Jerarca | Social network analysis, community structure, hierarchical clustering of networks. | .txt (List of links) | Text, output to MEGA, output to Cytoscape, hierarchical tree in Newick format | Linux, Windows | Open Source (GNU GPLv3) | Jerarca is a suite of hierarchical clustering algorithms that provides a simple and easy way to analyze complex networks. It is designed to efficiently convert unweighted undirected graphs into hierarchical trees by means of iterative hierarchical clustering. Moreover, Jerarca detects and returns the community structure of the network. |
| Keyhubs | Social Network Analysis | Web-based | Keyhubs provides software and services for workplace social analytics: www.keyhubs.com. | |||
| KrackPlot | Network visualization | UCINET, Mathematica | UCINET, Mathematica | ? | ? | KrackPlot is a program for network visualization designed for social network analysts. |
| KXEN Social Network (KSN) | Powerful Social Network Analysis | All databases, Text Files, other Input formats | All databases, Text Files, other Output formats, graph structure export : dot format used by GraphViz, link structure. | Unix, Linux, Windows | Commercial | KSN is a Social Network Analysis module designed for extracting many Social Networks from CDRs, extracting many attributes from a Social Network, integrating Social Network attributes into the customers database and exploiting Social Network attributes to build predictive models |
| libSNA | Basic network statistics | Csv | Csv | Any platform supporting python | Open source(LGPL) | libSNA is a widely-used open source library for conducting SNA research. Written in the object oriented programming language Python, libSNA provides a simple programming interface for applying SNA to large scale networks. libSNA is built on top of the open source library NetworkX; without NetworkX, libSNA would not be possible. |
| Mathematica | Graph analysis, statistics, data visualization, optimization, image recognition. | 3DS, ACO, Affymetrix, AIFF, ApacheLog, ArcGRID, AU, AVI, Base64, BDF, Binary, Bit, BMP, Byte, BYU, BZIP2, CDED, CDF, Character16, Character8, CIF, Complex128, Complex256, Complex64, CSV, CUR, DBF, DICOM, DIF, DIMACS, Directory, DOT, DXF, EDF, EPS, ExpressionML, FASTA, FITS, FLAC, GenBank, GeoTIFF, GIF, GPX, Graph6, Graphlet, GraphML, GRIB, GTOPO30, GXL, GZIP, HarwellBoeing, HDF, HDF5, HTML, ICO, ICS, Integer128, Integer16, Integer24, Integer32, Integer64, Integer8, JPEG, JPEG2000, JSON, JVX, KML, LaTeX, LEDA, List, LWO, MAT, MathML, MBOX, MDB, MGF, MMCIF, MOL, MOL2, MPS, MTP, MTX, MX, NASACDF, NB, NDK, NetCDF, NEXUS, NOFF, OBJ, ODS, OFF, Package, Pajek, PBM, PCX, PDB, PDF, PGM, PLY, PNG, PNM, PPM, PXR, QuickTime, RawBitmap, Real128, Real32, Real64, RIB, RSS, RTF, SCT, SDF, SDTS, SDTSDEM, SHP, SMILES, SND, SP3, Sparse6, STL, String, SurferGrid, SXC, Table, TAR, TerminatedString, Text, TGA, TGF, TIFF, TIGER, TLE, TSV, USGSDEM, UUE, VCF, VCS, VTK, WAV, Wave64, WDX, XBM, XHTML, XHTMLMathML, XLS, XLSX, XML, XPORT, XYZ, ZIP | 3DS, ACO, AIFF, AU, AVI, Base64, Binary, Bit, BMP, Byte, BYU, BZIP2, C, CDF, Character16, Character8, Complex128, Complex256, Complex64, CSV, DICOM, DIF, DIMACS, DOT, DXF, EMF, EPS, ExpressionML, FASTA, FITS, FLAC, FLV, GIF, Graph6, Graphlet, GraphML, GXL, GZIP, HarwellBoeing, HDF, HDF5, HTML, Integer128, Integer16, Integer24, Integer32, Integer64, Integer8, JPEG, JPEG2000, JSON, JVX, KML, LEDA, List, LWO, MAT, MathML, Maya, MGF, MIDI, MOL, MOL2, MTX, MX, NASACDF, NB, NetCDF, NEXUS, NOFF, OBJ, OFF, Package, Pajek, PBM, PCX, PDB, PDF, PGM, PLY, PNG, PNM, POV, PPM, PXR, QuickTime, RawBitmap, Real128, Real32, Real64, RIB, RTF, SCT, SDF, SND, Sparse6, STL, String, SurferGrid, SVG, SWF, Table, TAR, TerminatedString, TeX, Text, TGA, TGF, TIFF, TSV, UUE, VideoFrames, VRML, VTK, WAV, Wave64, WDX, WMF, X3D, XBM, XHTML, XHTMLMathML, XLS, XLSX, XML, XYZ, ZIP, ZPR | Windows, Macintosh, Linux | Commercial | Mathematica is a general purpose computation and analysis environment. |
| Meerkat | Static and dynamic networks: community mining, visualization, exploration, and filtering software. | Pajek(.net), Edge list, Meerkat (.meerkat), GraphML (.graphml) | Meerkat (.meerkat), GraphML (.graphml), .jpg, .pdf, .cvs | Windows, Ubuntu and OSX, Java 1.6+ | Free to use Lite version, pay to use Full to be released. | Meerkat allows interactive visualization of networks, and provides facilities and algorithms for community mining, filtering on edge and node properties, network statistics, and node metrics. In particular, it provides dynamic network community mining, or community evolution event analysis, which allows abstraction and better understanding of changes to communities across timeframes for dynamic networks. |
| MetaSight | Email / communication network visualization and analysis | MS Exchange and Lotus email servers | Interactive user interface | Windows Server | Commercial | MetaSight is an enterprise social software application which uses data from routine e-mail to infer and map business expertise and relationships. Applications include expertise location and external relationship management. |
| NEO4J | Graph Database with several modules such as rdf or visualization | GraphML, rdf, csv, other | ? | ? | AGPL and commercial | Neo4j is a graph database. It is an embedded, disk-based, fully transactional Java persistence engine that stores data structured in graphs rather than in tables. |
| Network Overview Discovery Exploration for Excel (NodeXL) | Network overview, discovery and exploration | email, .csv (text), .txt, .xls (Excel), .xslt (Excel 2007, 2010, 2013), .net (Pajek), .dl (UCINet), GraphML | .csv (text), .txt, .xls (Excel), .xslt (Excel 2007), .dl (UCINet), GraphML | Windows XP/Vista/7 | Free (Ms-PL) | NodeXL is a free and open Excel 2007, 2010, 2013 Add-in and C#/.Net library for network analysis and visualization. It integrates into Excel 2007, 2010, 2013 and adds directed graph as a chart type to the spreadsheet and calculates a core set of network metrics and scores. Supports extracting email, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, WWW, Wiki and flickr social networks. Accepts edge lists and matrix representations of graphs. Allows for easy and automated manipulation and filtering of underlying data in spreadsheet format. Multiple network visualization layouts. Reads and writes Pajek, UCINet and GraphML files. |
| NetMiner 4 | All-in-one Software for Network Analysis and Visualization | .xls(Excel),.xlsx (Excel 2007), .csv(text), .dl(UCINET), .net(Pajek), .dat(StOCNET), .gml; NMF(proprietary) | .xls(Excel),.xlsx (Excel 2007), .csv(text), .dl(UCINET), .net(Pajek), .dat(StOCNET), NMF(proprietary) | Microsoft Windows | Commercial with free trial | NetMiner is a software tool for exploratory analysis and visualization of large network data. NetMiner 4 embed internal Python-based script engine which equipped with the automatic Script Generator for unskilled users. Then the users can operate NetMiner 4 with existing GUI or programmable script language.
Main features include : analysis of large networks(+10,000,000 nodes), comprehensive network measures and models, both exploratory & confirmatory analysis, interactive visual analytics, what-if network analysis, built-in statistical procedures and charts, full documentation(1,000+ pages of User's Manual), expressive network data model, facilities for data & workflow management, Python-based Script workbench and user-friendliness. |
| Network Genie | Social Network Survey Data collection | Online survey and project design environment | Output to CSV, InFLow, NEGOPY, MultiNet, Pajek, Siena, and UCINET | Any social web browser | Payment assessed for completed surveys at $.50 per survey. Data collection is free. Payment is required prior to data download. | Network Genie is used to: (1) Design complete, egocentric, and hybrid social network surveys using a wide variety of survey question formats; (2) Manage social network projects, including manage a collaborative team who have privileges defined by a project coordinator; (3) Collect social network data using online forms; and (4) Download and export data to the social network analysis program of your choice. Registration is free. |
| Network Workbench | Modeling, Analysis and Visualization of Large Scale Networks | .net, .mat, .graphml, .nwb, .csv, xgmml | .net, .mat, .graphml, .nwb, .csv, xgmml, .eps, .pdf | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Solaris | Open Source (Apache 2.0) | Contains a variety of algorithms and features useful for analyzing networks, including Page Rank, Pathfinder Network Scaling, Small World network generation, and Blondel Community Detection to name a few. The underlying OSGi plugin model allows users to expand on Network Workbench's core functionality. |
| NetworkX | Python package for the creation, manipulation, and study of the structure, dynamics, and functions of complex networks. | GML, Graph6/Sparse6, GraphML, GraphViz (.dot), NetworkX (.yaml, adjacency lists, and edge lists), Pajek (.net), LEDA | GML, Gnome Dia, Graph6/Sparse6, GraphML, GraphViz (.dot), NetworkX (.yaml, adjacency lists, and edge lists), Pajek (.net), LEDA, and assorted image formats (.jpg, .png, .ps, .svg, et al.) | Open source (GPL and similar) | Free | NetworkX (NX) is a toolset for graph creation, manipulation, analysis, and visualization. User interface is through scripting/command-line provided by Python. NX includes a several algorithms, metrics and graph generators. Visualization is provided through pylab and graphviz.
NX is an open-source project, in active development since 2004 with an open bug-tracking site, and user forums. Development is sponsored by Los Alamos National Lab. |
| Nevada | Dynamic network visualization & analysis | XML-based GAML (similar to GraphML), Pajek files | SVG, PNG, and GraphML | Any system supporting Java | Open Source, GNU General Public License | Nevada is a tool for interactive visualization of dynamic networks. Unlike other dynamic network visualization tools it's focussing on visualizations preserving the user's mental-map. Import of Pajek files is supported. |
| Graph Generator, Graph Analyzer | txt | txt, net – Pajek compatible | Any system supporting Java | University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License | NGCE is graph generator and statistical analyzer which can create reproducible graphs for simulations or other scientific experiments. In particular it is capable of creating: Homogeneous Graphs, Random Graphs, Scale-Free Graphs, Random Graphs with Fixed Connectivity and Custom Graphs. Various scripts calculate the probability distribution function P(k), which gives the probability that a node has exactly k edges. After the completion of this step, P(k) is automatically plotted using the gnuplot program. Every plot is displayed graphically, but is also stored in the Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) format. In addition, the title of each plot is created dynamically, in the form of an opaque Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) which allows the complete reconstruction of the particular graph. | |
| ONA Surveys | Social Network Survey Data collection | Online survey and project design environment | Output to Microsoft Excel, Inflow and Netdraw | Microsoft Internet Explorer | Subscription based. Unlimited number of surveys. Pricing for commercial and academic use. | ONA Surveys is a tool aimed primarily at ONA/SNA practitioners to help collect data about relationships. Free registration provides full functionality, but export is limited to first 5 nodes. Paid subscription provides unlimited surveys with unlimited respondents. Supports multiple languages. |
| ORA | Social Network Analysis, Network Visualization, Meta-Network Analysis, Trail Analysis, Geospatial Network Analysis, Network Generation | DyNetML, .csv | DyNetML, .csv | Windows | Freeware for non-commercial use | *ORA is a dynamic meta-network assessment and analysis tool containing hundreds of social network, dynamic network metrics, trail metrics, procedures for grouping nodes, identifying local patterns, comparing and contrasting networks, groups, and individuals from a dynamic meta-network perspective. *ORA has been used to examine how networks change through space and time, contains procedures for moving back and forth between trail data (e.g. who was where when) and network data (who is connected to whom, who is connected to where …), and has a variety of geo-spatial network metrics, and change detection techniques. *ORA can handle multi-mode, multi-plex, multi-level networks. It can identify key players, groups and vulnerabilities, model network changes over time, and perform COA analysis. It has been tested with large networks. Distance based, algorithmic, and statistical procedures for comparing and contrasting networks are part of this toolkit. |
| Pajek | Analysis and Visualization of Large Scale Networks | .net, .paj, .dat(UCINET), .ged, .bs, .mac, .mol | .net, .paj, .dat(UCINET), .xml(graphML), .bs | Windows, Linux, Mac OS X | Freeware for non-commercial use | A widely used program for drawing networks, Pajek also has analytical capabilities, and can be used to calculate most centrality measures, identify structural holes, block-model, and so on. Macros can be recorded to perform repetitive tasks. Data can be sent directly to R, to calculate additional statistics. |
| R | Social network analysis within the versatile and popular R environment | R will read in almost any format data file | R has write capability for most data formats | Windows, Linux, Mac | Open source | R contains several packages relevant for social network analysis: igraph is a generic network analysis package; sna performs sociometric analysis of networks; network manipulates and displays network objects; tnet performs analysis of weighted networks, two-mode networks, and longitudinal networks; ergm is a set of tools to analyze and simulate networks based on exponential random graph models exponential random graph models; Bergm provides tools for Bayesian analysis for exponential random graph models, hergm implements hierarchical exponential random graph models; 'RSiena' allows the analyses of the evolution of social networks using dynamic actor-oriented models; latentnet has functions for network latent position and cluster models; degreenet provides tools for statistical modeling of network degree distributions; and networksis provides tools for simulating bipartite networks with fixed marginals. |
| Radatools | Network analysis, Communities detection | .txt, .net/.clu (Pajek) | .txt, .net/.clu (Pajek) | Linux, Windows, Mac Os X | Free | Radatools is a collection of programs to analyze complex networks, with special emphasis on community detection and the whole mesoscale determination. Implements several algorithms for community detection (tabu, extremal, spectral, fast, fine-tuning by reposition), and the AFG methodology for the analysis of the mesoscale at different resolution levels. There are also tools to calculate the main network properties (degrees, strengths, clustering coefficients, assortativity, connectedness, reciprocity, shortest path lengths, diameter, betweenness, degree distribution, distances, etc.), compare partitions (Jaccard Index, Rand Index, Normalized Mutual Information, Variation of Information, etc.), extract the connected components, calculate the spanning tree, etc. |
| Sentinel Visualizer | Comprehensive network analysis and visualization | Structured XML, and databases such as SQL Server, Oracle, and Access. Also, Excel, Text and HTML formats. | Open database architecture in SQL Server; Structured XML and unstructured documents in Word, PDF, Excel, Text and HTML formats. | Microsoft Windows | Commercial (starting from $2000/user) 45-day free trial available | Sentinel Visualizer is a Windows-based program that provides data visualization, analysis and knowledgebase management within one product. Sentinel Visualizer produces interactive dynamic link charts, timeline and geospatial views, and provides a variety of analysis tools including Social Network Analysis, temporal analysis and entity and relationship weighting. Sentinel Visualizer includes a multi-user knowledgebase for efficiently and economically storing analysis data. |
| SNA-Forte | A Scalable Social Network Analysis Solution | Any data source that can be imported into SAS (DB connections, text files, SAS files) | Any data source that can be exported from SAS (DB connections, text files, SAS files) | Any platform supporting SAS | Free software; is provided as part of professional services. | SNA-Forte is a social network analysis solution using raw telecommunications CDR data as its input and automatically identifying communities of customers, as well as segments of these communities and roles of individuals in each community, based on selected parameters and weights. The algorithm is implemented as an open-source solution in SAS and is already in use in commercial environment. |
| SNA-Network | A toolkit for Social Network Analysis | .gdf (Guess), .net (Pajek) | .gdf (Guess), .net (Pajek) | Any platform supporting Perl 5 | Free software; may be redistributed/modified under the same terms as Perl itself. | SNA-Network is a bundle of modules for network algorithms, specifically designed for the needs of Social Network Analysis (SNA), but can be used for any other graph algorithms. It represents a standard directed and weighted network, which can also be used as an undirected and/or unweighted network. Data structures have been designed for SNA-typical sparse network operations, and consist of Node and Edge objects, linked via references to each other. |
| Social Networks Visualizer | Social Networks Visualization and Analysis Tool | .xml (GraphML), .net (pajek), .dot (GraphViz), .sm/.net (Sociomatrix), .net (UCINET) | .xml (GraphML), .net (pajek), .dot (GraphViz), .sm/.net (Sociomatrix) | Linux, Windows, Mac (Qt toolkit needed) | Free Software (GPL3) | SocNetV (Social Networks Visualizer) is an open-source graphical application, developed in C++ language and the cross-platform Qt toolkit. The user interface is friendly and simple, allowing the researcher to draw social networks or plain graphs by clicking on a canvas. SocNetV computes basic network properties (i.e. density, diameter, shortest path lengths), as well as more advanced statistics, such as centralities (i.e. closeness, betweeness, graph), clustering coefficient, etc. Various layout algorithms are supported. For instance, nodes can be automatically positioned on circles or levels according to their betweeness centralities. Random networks and small world creation is also supported. SocNetV can handle any number of nodes, although with a speed penalty when nodes are more than 3000 or the graph is quite dense (many edges). |
| Socilyzer | Easy-to-use organizational and social network analysis tool for managers and consultants. Complete with guidebook and study templates. | Data is collected with online surveys. Pro users can also import edgelists (CSV) or copy-paste raw matrix data into a data editor. Users can import data from Podio, an web-based collaboration platform. | Export network visualizations and copy statistics tables to PowerPoint, Word, print etc. Pro users can also generate and export data in VNA-format. | All platforms (web-based) | Commercial. A free plan is available for visualizations. | An all-in-one social network analysis analysis tool with built-in questionnaire design, data collection, data visualization and statistics. Find the guidebook and study templates at: https://socilyzer.com |
| Sociomapping | Team network analysis tool. Showing mutual relations in landscape-like graphs. | Data is collected with online surveys. | ? | All platforms (web-based) | Commercial license and academic license. | An all-in-one social network analysis analysis tool with built-in questionnaire design, data collection, data visualization and statistics. Find case studies and other application possibilities at: https://www.sociomap.com |
| SocioMetrica | EgoNet, LinkAlyzer, and VisuaLyzer applications | DyNetML, Excel, DL, text, UCINET | DyNetML, Excel, DL, text, UCINET, SPSS | Windows | Shareware | A set of applications for interview-based gathering of egocentric data (EgoNet), linking of data records through matching of node attributes (LinkAlyzer), and visualization (VisuaLyzer). VisuaLyzer also provides prototype functionality for analysis using a relational algebra model. A relational programming language, RAlog, derives and analyzes representations in this relation algebra. |
| SocProg | Analyses movements of individuals, social and population structure. Prepares data for population size analysis. | Cross-platform (requires MATLAB and Statistics Toolbox) or Windows (stand-alone) | Freeware | |||
| SONAMINE | Scalable network scoring and analysis up to hundreds of millions nodes and billion edges | any comma separated text file | comma separate text file | Windows, Linux | Commercial, free eval. Enterprise software license or hosted. | SONAMINE graph scoring engine is software for analysts. It distributes work over multiple servers, is fault tolerant and horizontally scalable. It is used for node scoring and data mining. SONAMINE graph query server is a real time high performance graph query engine. |
| SONIVIS | Network visualisation and analysis, especially Wiki-based information spaces | .xml(graphML) | .xml(graphML) | Windows, Linux | open-source (GPL) | SONIVIS:Tool is a Java-based, open-source application, which is based on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP). The user interface is organized into three main perspectives: Analysis, Manipulation, and Statistics. Besides various Wiki and network analysis metrics, the tool provides predefined and user-definable graphical analyses. It offers a quick overview on current Wiki states or developments |
| statnet | Social network analysis within the versatile and popular R environment | R will read in almost any format data file | R has write capability for most data formats | Windows, Linux, Mac | Open source (GPL) | A suite of R packages for social network analysis: sna performs sociometric analysis of networks; network manipulates and displays network objects; ergm implements exponential random graph models for networks; latentnet has functions for network latent position and cluster models; degreenet provides tools for statistical modeling of network degree distributions; and networksis provides tools for simulating bipartite networks with fixed marginals; the statnet meta-package allows for package management. |
| StOCNET | Software package for the advanced statistical analysis of social networks | Text (.dat, .txt) | Text | Windows | Freeware/Open source | StOCNET is a software system for the advanced statistical analysis of social networks, focusing on probabilistic (stochastic) models. The program consists of several statistical models for network analysis. In the present version, six modules are implemented: BLOCKS (stochastic blockmodeling of relational data), p2 (analysis of binary network data with actor and/or dyadic covariates), PACNET (constructing a partial algebraic model for observed multiple complete networks using a statistical approach), SIENA (analysis of repeated measures on social networks and MCMC-estimation of exponential random graphs), ULTRAS (analysis of binary undirected network data using ultrametric measurement models), and ZO (simulation and/or enumeration of graphs with given degrees). |
| tnet | Social network analysis of weighted, two-mode, and longitudinal networks in R | Edgelist | R has write capability for most data formats | Windows, Linux, Mac | Open source (GPL) | A packages for social network analysis of weighted, two-mode, and longitudinal networks. Possible extensions are discussed here |
| Tulip | Social Network Analysis tool | Tulip format (.tlp), GraphViz (.dot), GML, txt, adjacency matrix | .tlp, .gml | Windows Vista, XP, 7/ Linux / Mac OS | LGPL | Tulip is an information visualization framework dedicated to the analysis and visualization of relational data. Tulip aims to provide the developer with a complete library, supporting the design of interactive information visualization applications for relational data that can be tailored to the problems he or she is addressing. |
| UCINET | Social Network Analysis tool | Excel, DL, text, Pajek .net, Krackplot, Negopy, proprietary (##.d & ##.h) | Excel, DL, text, Pajek .net, Krackplot, Mage, Metis, proprietary (##.d & ##.h) | Windows | Shareware | A comprehensive package for the analysis of social network data as well as other 1-mode and 2-mode data. Can handle a maximum of 32,767 nodes (with some exceptions) although practically speaking many procedures get too slow around 5,000 - 10,000 nodes. Social network analysis methods include centrality measures, subgroup identification, role analysis, elementary graph theory, and permutation-based statistical analysis. In addition, the package has strong matrix analysis routines, such as matrix algebra and multivariate statistics. |
| UNISoN | Download usenet messages and save SNA output files | Reads from free NNTP servers | Creates CSV files and Pajek .net files | Any system supporting Java | Freeware | A java application that can download Usenet messages from free NNTP servers, show the saved messages, then allow filtering of data to save to a Pajek network file or CSV file. It creates networks using the author of each post. If someone replies to a post, there is a unidirectional link created from the author of the post to the author of the message they are replying to. There is also a preview panel that shows the network visually. |
| UrlNet | Generation of social network analysis program input files | World Wide Web pages, online search engine result sets, and Internet Web Service APIs | currently generates Pajek projects and GUESS .gdf files | Any (it's written in Python, requires v2.5 or higher ; source code is included) | Freeware for non-commercial use | UrlNet is a Python class library for generating networks based on Internet linkages. In the simplest case, UrlNet creates a tree by harvesting the outlink URLs from the page referenced by a root URL (level zero); retrieving each of those pages (level 1), harvesting their outlink URLs; retrieving those pages (level 2), harvesting their outlink URLs; et cetera to a caller-specified depth. UrlNet can also create "forests", the union of multiple tree networks. Specialized classes are provided for generation of networks from search engine result sets (6 search engines are currently supported).
UrlNet can also utilize URL-based Web Service APIs to generate networks. Current examples include Technorati's Cosmos API and three types of networks utilizing APIs provided by the National Center for Biological Information (NCBI). |
| VennMaker | Egocentric network analysis and interview tool | Copy&Paste edges from other programs | JPEG, PNG, SVG, CSV | Java 1.6 (Windows, Linux, MacOS) | Commercial (free demo version) | VennMaker is a software program that allows data to be jointly gathered both qualitatively and quantitatively at the same time during an interview. In addition, the interview is recorded on an audio track. While the respondent is visualising and describing the personal network in conversation, qualitative data can be collected visually and/or by way of audio recording and adding comments. Quantitative data can be directly established on the digital network map or with an optional electronic questionnaire. The interviewer is able to configure the digital questionnaire prior to the survey, making adjustments according to the focus in question. For non-standardised surveys, e.g. narrative interviews, it is possible to adjust all set-tings of the network map during the course of the interview as well. |
| visone | Interactive analysis and visualization of social networks | GraphML, UCINET (.dl), Pajek (.net), Excel (.csv), Matrices, and Edge lists | Same as input and images as PNG, PDF, JPEG | Java (Windows, Linux, MacOS) | Freeware (also for commercial use) | Interactive graphical tool for manipulating, analyzing, and visualizing social networks. Analysis methods include centrality indices, clustering, cliques, components, and centralization. Generic graph layout algorithms and tailored network visualizations are available. visone supports many graphical properties and generates high-quality images in PNG, PDF, etc. |
| VisuaLyzer | Network visualization | Edgelist/Edgearray, Excel or GraphML formats | Edgelist/Edgearray, Excel or GraphML formats | ? | Commercial | Interactive tool for entering, visualizing and analyzing social network data.
Create nodes and links directly in VisuaLyzer, or import data from Edgelist/Edgearray, Excel or GraphML formats. |
| WAND | Ecological network analysis | Scor files | Scor files | Windows | Open source(GPL) | |
| Weighted Spectral Distribution | Graph Analysis, Parameter tuning, Spectral Graph Theory | Matlab function | Matlab variables | Windows, Linux, Mac OS X 64-bit | Open source(GPL) | The Weighted Spectral Toolbox is a matlab toolbox for use with undirected graphs. There are several functions in the toolbox but the main ones obtain the best fit (in the weighted spectral sense) of a topology generator to a target graph and Produce a weighted spectral distribution for a given network (adjacency matrix). |
| Wolfram Alpha | Graph analysis, time series analysis, categorical data analysis | Facebook API | Many formats | Web service | Free | Wolfram Alpha is a general computational knowledge engine answering queries on many knowledge domains. Give it the input "Facebook report" and it will answer queries on analysis of your social network data, |
| Xanalys Link Explorer | Visual analytics combining link analysis with temporal and spatial analysis | ODBC databases, flat files, direct data entry | *.wf, *.xas (Proprietary formats), Excel | Microsoft Windows | Commercial, Free trial | Interactive visual analytics tool combining data acquisition and querying with link analysis, temporal analysis and spatial analysis (GIS) techniques. Integrates with other desktop applications and services such as Excel and Bing mapping |
| Plotonic | social network analysis | keywords/phrases | graphics, text | PHP | Commercial | Interactive web service for tracking brands on social networks. Compiles social network data into psychographic, demographic, and geographic charts and maps. |
| Jungle Torch | social network analysis, seo report, inbound marketing | keywords/phrases | Graphics, Excel, Text | any web browser | Free Trial, Commercial | Jungle Torch gives an SEO view of websites. Jungle Torch provides users with a social network analysis and can determine who is saying what about a particular company good or bad. |
| LTAS Technologies Inc. | Web Identity Search Tool | Facebook friends data, and profile data | Windows, Linux, Mac OS X 64-bit | Free trial credits, pay-per-search and site licensing available (for use only by law enforcement, government agencies, private investigators, and insurance industry) | Web Identity Search Tool (WIST), which allows an investigator to find the “degrees of separation” between any two Facebook users up to 3 Degrees, and displays the results in an interactive network graph showing associations and mutual friends. | |
| DNA-7 | Self diagnostic tool that allows managers and consultants to have full organization diagnostic including insights and action items for improvement | Online pre-built surveys | Interactive Web Pages, Word, Excel, Gephi | All platforms (web-based) | Commercial | Pre-built survey with proven success of reveal and highlight organization opportunities for growth. The output of the system is a report that consist of 3 layers: organization, units and employees. |
Read more about this topic: Social Network Analysis Software
Famous quotes containing the words collection of, collection, social, network, analysis, tools and/or libraries:
“Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.”
—Valerie Solanas (b. 1940)
“The Nature of Familiar Letters, written, as it were, to the Moment, while the Heart is agitated by Hopes and Fears, on Events undecided, must plead an Excuse for the Bulk of a Collection of this Kind. Mere Facts and Characters might be comprised in a much smaller Compass: But, would they be equally interesting?”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“Night City was like a deranged experiment in Social Darwinism, designed by a bored researcher who kept one thumb permanently on the fast-forward button. Stop hustling and you sank without a trace, but move a little too swiftly and you’d break the fragile surface tension of the black market; either way, you were gone ... though heart or lungs or kidneys might survive in the service of some stranger with New Yen for the clinic tanks.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)
“How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays, emanating either from myself or from others, cross the limitless chain of created things unimpeded; it is a transparent network that covers the world, and its slender threads communicate themselves by degrees to the planets and stars. Captive now upon earth, I commune with the chorus of the stars who share in my joys and sorrows.”
—Gérard De Nerval (1808–1855)
“... the big courageous acts of life are those one never hears of and only suspects from having been through like experience. It takes real courage to do battle in the unspectacular task. We always listen for the applause of our co-workers. He is courageous who plods on, unlettered and unknown.... In the last analysis it is this courage, developing between man and his limitations, that brings success.”
—Alice Foote MacDougall (1867–1945)
“At the utmost, the active-minded young man should ask of his teacher only mastery of his tools. The young man himself, the subject of education, is a certain form of energy; the object to be gained is economy of his force; the training is partly the clearing away of obstacles, partly the direct application of effort. Once acquired, the tools and models may be thrown away.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“riding flatcars to Fresno,
Across the whole country
Steep towns, flat towns, even New York,
And oceans and Europe & libraries & galleries
And the factories they make rubbers in”
—Gary Snyder (b. 1930)