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Agna

A platform-independent freeware application
Type: Software Application
Status: Free Trial
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Description: DESCRIPTION: Agna , from Marius I. Benta. Applied Graph & Network Analysis is a platform-independent freeware application designed for...
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Anthropac

Type: Software Application
Status: Commercial
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Description: The program costs $75 for professionals and $30 for students. Site licenses are also available. NOTE: DO NOT PURCHASE THE SOFTWARE ONLINE! ...
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Automap

Type: Software Application
Status: Free Trial
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Description: AutoMap uses parts of speech tagging and proximity analysis to do computer-assisted Network Text Analysis (NTA). NTA encodes the links among words...
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BioLayout Express 3D

Type: Software Application
Status: Free Trial
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Description: BioLayout Express 3D is a Java platform for layout, visualization and clustering of large Graphs in 3D and 2D. The application is based on the...
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Buzztracker

Mapping News By Frequency And Location
Type: Software Application
Status: Public
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Description:  Buzztracker is a software written and designed by Craig Mod that visualizes frequencies and relationships between locations...
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Commetrix

Visualizing Knowledge Community Metrics...
Type: Software Application
Status: unknown
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Description: You must contact the creator, Matthias Trier, to use the software, it is not publicly available. Commetrix is a Dynamic Network Visualization and...
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Dynet

Type: Software Application
Status: Commercial
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Description: DyNet implements social network theory to elucidate at a glance interconnections and relationships among selected data and their associated...
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Ecosystem Network Analysis

Type: Software Application
Status: Academic Use Only
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Description: In tracing the trophic connections among the populations of even the simplest ecosystems, the emerging picture soon comes to resemble a hopeless...
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EgoNet

Personal Network Software
Type: Software Application
Status: Freeware
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Description: Egonet is a program for the collection and analysis of egocentric network data. If you are new to ego-centered networks please read over the...
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Fatcat

Type: Software Application
Status: Freeware
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Description: It can print to PostScript (color) or Epson-compatible dot-matrix printers. In Windows you can use the clipboard to insert graphical results into...
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Fidg't Visualizer

Explore your network
Type: Map
Status: Other
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Description: Fidg't works as a Social Networking Address Book by keeping track of all your friends and their media across different social networks. After...
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Gephi

Type: Software Application
Status: Public
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Description:  Gephi is an open-source software for visualizing and analyzing large networks graphs. Gephi uses a 3D render engine to display graphs in...
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Graphplot

Type: Software Application
Status: Other
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Description: GraphPlot is Password Protected  - Send E-mail to ttreadwell@wcupa.edu to obtain permission.  GraphPlot is a spreadsheet and a...
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GraphViz

Type: Software Application
Status: Freeware
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Description: Graph visualization is a way of representing structural information as diagrams of abstract graphs and networks. Automatic graph drawing has many...
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ICCARUS 3D social network visualization

Type: Map
Status: Other
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Description: a 3D data visualization of the real-time social networks behind scouta.com. ICCARUS, short for "Interactive Command Console & Relational...
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icharts

public beta release
Type: Web-tool
Status: Other
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Description: iCharts makes it simple to create, share and embed interactive charts. iCharts allows everyone to upload Excel sheets or manually add data from...
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IKNOW **

Type: Other
Status: Academic Use Only
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Description: IKNOW is software copyrighted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Downloads fonline can only be used for non-commercial purposes....
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InfiView

Type: Web-tool
Status: Public
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Description:  InfiView is an AJAX Framework built in Bindows and compatible to all the most commond browsers. For data handling it uses dynamic...
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Interactive Knowledge Maps of Tools, Books, Researchers, Success Factors, and Methods in the Visualization Field

Type: Website
Status: Public
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Description:  Interactive Knowledge Maps of Tools, Books, Researchers, Success Factors, and Methods in the Visualization Field. see especially the...
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Keyplayer 1.44

Type: Software Application
Status: Freeware
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Description: The program is distributed with two other free programs, namely Pajek (written by Vladimir Batagelj and Andrej Mrvar) and Mage (written by...
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KrackPlot

Type: Software Application
Status: Freeware
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Description: KrackPlot is a program for network visualization designed for social network analysts. KrackPlot uses a simple screen-oriented interface. You can...
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Moviemol

Type: Software Application
Status: Other
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Description: Program for analysing Networks / chemistry computer program designed to display dynamic molecular structure. Moviemol can be adapted to display of...
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MultiNet

Type: Software Application
Status: Other
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Description: Status :To obtain the latest version of MultiNet, please write to richards@sfu.ca and tell us a bit about yourself and what you hope to do with...
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Negopy

Type: Software Application
Status: Shareware
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Description: To obtain a package, send an e-mail request to 
To obtain the latest version of Negopy, please write to richards@sfu.ca and tell us a bit...
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NetDraw

Type: Software Application
Status: Freeware
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Description: The program reads UCINET system files, UCINET DL files, Pajek files, and its own VNA format (which allows saving network and attribute data...
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NetMiner

Type: Software Application
Status: Commercial
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Description: Netminer is an innovative software tool for exploratory network data analysis and visualization. "Its unique feature lies in the integration...
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NetVis

Type: Web-tool
Status: Freeware
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Description: NetVis Module is a free open source web-based tool designed to simulate, analyze, and visualize social networks using data from csv files, online...
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Network Genie / program for collecting network data

Type: Web-tool
Status: Freeware
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Description: Network Genie makes it easy and affordable to design and manage social network survey projects. Network Genie helps you: • Design...
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NodeXL

Network Overview, Discovery and Exploration for Excel
Type: Software Application
Status: Freeware
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Description:  NodeXL is a network overview, discovery, and exploration add-in for Excel 2007. The tool allows for a quick, alternative way to visualize...
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NYTimes represent

Tracking Elected Representatives in New York City.
Type: Web-tool
Status: Public
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Description:   Unfortunately only for NYc, but this tool seems absolutely great.  Represent is an online interactive mashup that starts from...
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OGDF

Open Graph Drawing Framework
Type: Software Application
Status: Freeware
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Description: OGDF is a self-contained C++ class library for the automatic layout of diagrams. OGDF offers sophisticated algorithms and data structures to use...
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Orgnet. com

Type: Software Application
Status: Commercial
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Description: Social Network Analysis Software and Services: "We license the InFlow set of software tools for social and organizational network analysis....
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Pajek***

Type: Software Application
Status: Academic Use Only
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Description: This program runs under Windows NT/9x and provides some analysis tools for large networks and graph-drawing capabilities
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Repast

Type: Software Application
Status: Free Trial
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Description: Repast Simphony (Repast S) extends the Repast portfolio by offering a new approach to simulation development and execution, including a set of...
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ReseauLu &NetLaboratory

Type: Software Application
Status: Commercial
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Description:  ReseauLu is a proprietary software developed by Aguidel. The software is a data analysis solution, one which consists of several layers....
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SEMASPACE

Type: unknown
Status: unknown
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Description: SemaSpace is a fast and easy to use graph editor for large knowledge networks, specially designed for the application in non technical sciences and...
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SIENA

Type: Software Application
Status: Free Trial
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Description: SIENA is a program for the analysis of repeated (longitudinal, dynamic) data on complete social networks; and for Maximum Likelihood estimation in...
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Skyrails (beta)

Type: unknown
Status: Freeware
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Description: Skyrails is a social network (or any graph really) visualization system. It has a built in programming language for processing (as far as...
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Social network visualization (der-mo)

(based on the relation browser)
Type: Software Application
Status: Free Trial
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Description: (based on the relation browser : CIA world factbook demo) see also http://getoutfoxed.com/visualization an open source will be released...
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SocNetV / Social Network Visualizer for Linux

Type: Software Application
Status: Freeware
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Description: SocNetV is an application for the Linux desktop written in C++/Qt. Its main objective is to provide a sensible means for Social Networks Analysis...
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SolidSX

Software explorer
Type: Software Application
Status: Free Trial
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Description:  The Software Explorer (SolidSX) is a standalone Windows application that gives insight in large software systems. SolidSX creates...
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SONIA : Social network Image Animator ***

Type: Software Application
Status: Academic Use Only
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Description: In progress but to be followed closely. SONIA is a package for visualizing dynamic or longitudinal "network" data. In addition to...
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Sourcemap

Open supply chain
Type: Web-tool
Status: Public
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Description:  SourceMap is a outstanding venture sponsored by different groups within the MIT. As they state on the site: "When you invite people to...
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StocNet

Type: Software Application
Status: Freeware
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Description: StOCNET is an open software system for the statistical analysis of social networks using advanced statistical models. StOCNET provides a platform...
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Swarm creativity

Type: Software Application
Status: Free Trial
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Description: click on "Coolhunting". The Condor (formerly TeCFlow) software can be downloaded from http://www.ickn.org/ickndemo/ "We are...
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Tom Saywer Software

Type: Software Application
Status: Commercial
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Description: "Tom Sawyer Software is the premier provider of high performance graph visualization, layout, and analysis systems that enable you to see and...
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TULIP

Type: Software Application
Status: Freeware
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Description: Software under GPL licence and can be freely downloaded at SourceForge : http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=61223 Tulip...
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UCINET

Type: Software Application
Status: Free Trial
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Description: The full program can be downloaded and used free for 30 days. For longer use, individual students pay $40, schools & government pay $150, and...
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Verifiable

Upload, Visualize and Share your Data Online
Type: Web-tool
Status: Public
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Description:  The new website Verifiable is yet another contender in the now seemingly crowded social data visualization area, which include...
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Visone

Type: Software Application
Status: Academic Use Only
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Description: Visual analysis of social networks. visone is a long-term research project, in which models and algorithms to integrate and advance the analysis...
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Yfiles

Type: Software Application
Status: Commercial
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Description: YFiles is an extensive Java™ class library that provides algorithms and components enabling the analysis, visualization, and the automatic...
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ZO

Zero-One
Type: Software Application
Status: Free Trial
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Description: Tom A.B. Snijder's collection of programs to analyze 0/1 matrices. The ZO (Zero-One) program comes bundled with the StOCNET bundle:...
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