Silicon Valley Networks Analysis Project
Network Visualization Software:
  • Netvis, a free open source web-based tool designed to simulate, analyze, and visualize social networks. Also contains an extensive list of network visualization software links.
  • daVinci a digraph drawing program that is particularly suited for drawing ordered relations.
  • gem3Ddraw a three dimensional graph drawing program.
  • KrackPlot a network graphics computer program.
  • Mage is a 3-D visualization program that allows the user to rotate their network in space.
  • Moviemol, a chemistry computer program that was designed to display dynamic molecular structure. Moviemol can be adapted to permit the display of the dynamics of changing network structures.
  • Netminer, a software tool for exploratory network data nalysis and visualization that is available in both a Windows and Web-based version.
  • Pajek programs for social network analysis.

Network Analysis Software:

Contacts in Network analysis:

  • ISNAE Institute for Social Network Analysis of the Economy
  • socialnetworks.org An extensive academic bibliography of Social Networks references, maintained by Jonathon Cummings.
  • IKNOW Inquiring Knowledge Networks on the Web.
  • Noldus, the publisher of a computer program, MatMan, that was specifically designed to facilitate the examination of hierarchies in network data. They also market devices to facilitate systematic observation.
  • ReferralWeb, Henry Kautz and Bart Selman's Java-based interface to a system for creating and searching social networks, including a network of 10,000 researchers in computer science with their areas of expertise.
  • Doug White's software for kinship network analysis that runs exports to Pajek and Ucinet.
  • ZO Tom A.B. Snijder's collection of programs to analyze 0/1 matrices.