Hover over highlighted sections to learn more. A graph visualization is a powerful tool when analyzing a social network. On an overall level, the visualization shows how fragmented a network is as well as its density. A dense network will have a high number of ties per person.
Gephi is an open-source software for visualizing and analyzing large networks graphs. Gephi uses a 3D render engine to display graphs in real-time and speed up the exploration. Use Gephi to explore, analyse, spatialise, filter, cluterize, manipulate and export all types of graphs.
tags: 3d-rendering exploration filtering graph-visualization graphsCytoscape is an open source software platform for visualizing complex networks and integrating these with any type of attribute data. A lot of plugins are available for various kinds of problem domains, including bioinformatics, social network analysis, and semantic web.
tags: visualization integration bioinformatics social-network expressionKeyLines is a JavaScript toolkit used by developers to build powerful network visualization applications, quickly.
tags: chart data-visualization diagramming diagrams flowchartNodeXL is a free, open-source template for Microsoft® Excel® 2007 and 2010 that makes it easy to explore network graphs. With NodeXL, you can enter a network edge list in a worksheet, click a button and see your graph, all in the familiar environment of the Excel window.
tags: excel-add-in ontologyTouchGraph is the producer of data visualization software TouchGraph Navigator 2. With TouchGraph Navigator 2, users can upload data and create "interactive network visualizations."[1] Users can purchase licenses for either a TouchGraph Navigator Desktop version or TouchGraph Navigator Web, where the user hosts visualizations on their server and views the visualization on a web browser.[1]
tags: visualization biologyPolinode is a tool for collecting information on relationships between people. For example, who works with whom? Who do people go to for advice? And any other question you like. With a powerful survey tool to collect the data and integrated visualization and analysis functionality to explore the network data, Polinode aims to help organizations and non-profits cut through complexity.
tags: business-and-commerce change-management data-analysis enterprise network-analysisUCINET for Windows is a software package for the analysis of social network data.
tags: social-media-analysis social-network-visualization