SoNIA - Social Network Image Animator

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Papers & Citations

Directly related to SoNIA:

• Skye Bender-deMoll and McFarland, Daniel A. (2006) “The Art and Science of Dynamic Network Visualization.” Journal of Social Structure. Volume 7, Number 2..[draft PDF]
• Moody, James, Daniel A. McFarland, and Skye Bender-deMoll. 2005. “Visualizing Network Dynamics.” American Journal of Sociology, (January 2005).
  Online version at AJS [subscription] [PDF 1.2 mb] links to movies featured in the article
• A pdf of Skye's talk about visualization using SoNIA presented at the 2004 social networks conference in Piran can be found here.
• Somewhat outdated draft whitepaper on the sonia software. 2002. Stanford (Bender-deMoll and McFarland)

Selected Background and relevant works:

Software

• AT&T Labs-Research. 2003. "Graphviz - open source graph drawing software." http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz/
• Batagelj, V., Mrvar, A. 2004. Pajek-Program for Analysis and Visualization of Large Networks Reference Manual: List of commands with short explanation. http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/pajek/
• Boer, P., Huisman, M., Snijders, T.A.B., and Zeggelink, E.P.H. 2003. StOCNET: an open software system for the advanced statistical analysis of social networks. Version 1.4. Groningen: ProGAMMA / ICS. http://stat.gamma.rug.nl/stocnet/
• Borgatti, S.P. 2002. NetDraw Network Visualization Software.
• Borgatti, S.P., M. Everett and L. Freeman. 2002. UCINET 6 for Windows. Harvard: Analytic Technologies. http:// www.analytictech.com
• R Foundation. 2004. R Project for Statistical Computing http://www.r-project.org/
• Himsolt, M. 1995. “Comparing and evaluating layout algorithms within GraphEd. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing 6.
• Krackhardt, D. and Blythe, J. and McGrath, C. 1994. "KrackPlot 3.0: An Improved Network Drawing Program." Connections 17,2:53-55.
• Hoschek (CERN). 1999. Colt; Open Source Libraries for High Performance Scientific and Technical Computing in Java. http://www-itg.lbl.gov/~hoschek/colt/
• Krempel, Lothar. 1999. “Visualizing Networks with Spring Embedders: Two-mode and Valued Data.” American Statistical Association 1999, Proceedings of the Section of Statistical Graphics, Alexandria, VA, pp. 36-45. http://www.mpi-fg-koeln.mpg.de/%7Elk/netvis/baltimore/index.html

Algorithms

• Brandenburg, F., Himsolt, M., Rohrer, C. 1995. "An Experimental Comparison of Force-Directed and Randomized Graph Drawing Algorithms.” Proceedings of the Symposium on Graph Drawing, 76-87.
• Davidson, R., Harel, D. 1996. "Drawing graphs nicely using simulated annealing", ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 15:4, 301-331.
• Di Battista, G., Garg, A., Liotta, G., Parise, A., Tamassia, R., Tassinari, E., Vargiu, F., Vismara, L. 1996. “Drawing Directed Acyclic Graphs: An Experimental Study” International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications Vol. 10, No. 6 (2000) 623-648.
• Di Battista, G.,Eades, P., (1994) “Algorithms for Drawing Graphs: an Annotated Bibliography” JOURNAL ??? ftp://pub/papers/compgeo/gdbiblo.ps.Z
• Frick ,A., Ludwig, A., Mehldau, H. 1994. "A Fast Adaptive Layout Algorithm for Undirected Graphs.” Proceedings of the DIMACS International Workshop on Graph Drawing, pp. 388-403.
• Fruchterman, T., Reingold, E. 1991. "Graph Drawing by Force-directed Placement" Software-Practice and Experience, Vol 21,11:1129-1164.
• Harel, D. and Koren, Y. 2002. "Graph Drawing by High-Dimensional Embedding" Graph Drawing, 10th International Symposium, Revised Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2528, Springer.
• Kamada, K., Kawai, S. 1989. "An Algorithm for Drawing General Undirected Graphs." Information Processing Letters 31:7-15.
• Sugiyama, K. and Misue, K. 1995. "A Simple and Unified Method for Drawing Graphs: Magnetic-Spring Algorithm" Lecture Notes in Computer Science 894, Springer Verlag, pp. 364-375 .
• Munzner, T. 1997. “H3: Laying Out Large Directed Graphs in 3D Hyperbolic Space” Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, October 20-21 1997, Phoenix, AZ, pp 2-10.

Viz

• Branke, J. 2001. "Dynamic Graph Drawing" in M. Kaufmann and D. Wagner (Eds.): Drawing Graphs, LNCS 2025, 228-246. Springer-Verlag
• Tufte, E. 1983. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Graphics Press
• Chen, C., Morris, S. (2003) “Visualizing Evolving Networks: Minimum Spanning Trees versus Pathfinder Networks” IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization Oct 19-21, 2003, Seattle, Washington.
• Freeman, Linton C. 2000. “Visualizing Social Networks.” Journal of Social Structure, Volume 1(1). http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/project/INSNA/joss/vsn.html
• Freeman, Linton C. 2000a. "Visualizaing Social Groups." (http://moreno.ss.uci.edu/groups.pdf) In the Proceedings of the Section on Statistical Graphics at the American Statistical Association.
• Freeman, Linton C. 2000b. "Visualizing Social Networks." Journal of Social Structure 1(1).
• Freeman, Linton C., Cynthia M. Webster, and Deirdre M. Kirke. 1998. "Exploring Social Structure Using Dynamic Three-Dimensional Color Images." Social Networks 20:109-18.
• Furnas, G. W., Bederson, B. B. (1995) “Space-Scale Diagrams: Understanding Multiscale Interfaces” Proceedings of CHI’95 Human Factors in Computing Systems, Denver, Co, May 1995
• Yee, K., Fisher, D., Dhamija, R., Hearst, M. 2001. "Animated Exploration of Graphs with Radial Layout" IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 43-50.

Layout Assesment

• Blythe, J., C. McGrath, and D. Krackhardt. 1995. ``The Effect of Graph Layout on Inference from Social Network Data.'' Symposium on Graph Drawing GD 95. Passau.
• McGrath, C., J. Blythe, and D. Krackhardt. 1997. "Seeing Groups in Graph Layouts" http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/cm3t/groups.html
• McGrath, Cathleen and Jim Blythe. 2004. “Do You See What I Want You to See? The Effects of Motion and Spatial Layout on Viewers' Perceptions of Graph Structure” Journal of Social Structure, Vol. 5, No. 2.
• McGrath, Cathleen, Jim Blythe, and David Krackhardt. 1997. "The Effect of Spatial Arrangement on Judgments and Errors in Interpreting Graphs." Social Networks 19:223-42.
• Moody, James. 2001. “Peer Influence Groups: Identifying Dense Clusters in Large Networks Social Networks 23:261-283.

Applications / Examples

• Borner, K., Chen, C., and Boyack, K. 2003. “Visualizing knowledge domains.” Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 37:179-255.
• Johnson, J.C. 2002. “Network Visualization of Social and Ecological Systems.” Paper presented at the Russian-American Workshop on Studies of Socio-Natural Co-Evolution from Different Parts of the World, Academgorodok, Siberia.
• Krempel, Lothar and Thomas Plümper. 2004. “Exploring the Dynamics of International Trade by Combining the Comparative Advantages of Multivariate Statistics and Network Visualization.” Journal of Social Structure Vol. 4, No. 1.
• Luczkovich, J. J. and J.C. Johnson. 2004. “Dynamic Visualization of Trophic Role Similarity in Estuarine Food Webs. AERS annual meeting Salisbury, MD.
• O'Mahony, Siobhan and Fabrizio Ferraro. In Press. "Managing the Boundary of an Open Project", in Market Emergence and Transformation, W. Powell and J.Padgett, Eds., MIT Press.
• Powell, Walter W., Douglas R. White, K. W. Koput, and Jason Owen-Smith. 2005. "Network Dynamics and Field Evolution: the Growth of Interorganizational Collaboration in the Life Sciences." American Journal of Sociology, forthcoming (January 2005).
• Rothenberg RB, Potterat JJ, Woodhouse DE et al. 1998. “Social network dynamics and HIV transmission.” AIDS 12:1529-1536.
• Roy, William G. 1983. "The Unfolding of the Interlocking Directorate Structure of the United States ." American Sociological Review:248-257.

Network Dynamics

• Motoyoshi, Masahiro, Takao Miura, and Kohei Watanabe. 2002. “Data streams and time-series: Mining temporal classes from time series data.” Proceedings of the eleventh international conference on Information and knowledge management.
• Snijders, Tom A.B. 2001. “The Statistical Evaluation of Social Network Dynamics.” Sociological Methodology:361-395.
• Sanil, Ashish, David Banks and Kathleen Carley. 1995. “Models for Evolving Fixed Node Networks: Model Fitting and Model Testing.” Social Networks 17,1:65-81.

Other

• Schvaneveldt, R.W., Dearholt, D. W., Durso, F. T. (1988) “Graph Theoretic Foundations of Pathfinder Networks” Computer Mathematics Applications 15,4:337-345
• Borg, I., Gronen, P. (1997) Modern Multidimensional Scaling Springer
• Freeman, L. 1983. "Spheres, Cubes and Boxes: Graph Dimensionality and Network Structure.” Social Networks 5,2:139-156.
• Kruskal, J., Wish, M. 1978. Multidimensional Scaling. Sage Publications. Beverly Hills. CA.

Some Works which cite SoNIA:

• Molina, J. L, Ruiz, A. A., Teves, L. Localizando geogr‡ficamente las redes personales
• Lobel, M., Neubauer, M., and Swedburg, R. (2005). Comparing how students collaborate to learn about the self and relationships in a real-time non-turn-taking online and turn-taking face-to-face environment. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 10(4), article 18.
• Kossinets,G., Watts, D.J, Recovery and analysis of social networks from discrete interactions (unpublished)
• Carolan, B., Natriello, G. (2006) Data Mining Journals and Books: Using the Science of Networks to Uncover the Structure of the Educational Research Community Teachers College, Columbia University
• Balkundi, P., Kilduff, M. (2005) The ties that lead: A social network approach to leadership. The Leadership Quarterly 16 941Ð961