Social Network Analysis Instructional Web Site -- Steve Borgatti. Social network analysis software. Social network analysis software (SNA software) is software which facilitates quantitative or qualitative analysis of social networks, by describing features of a network either through numerical or visual representation. Overview[edit] Some SNA software can perform predictive analysis.[5] This includes using network phenomena such as a tie to predict individual level outcomes (often called peer influence or contagion modeling), using individual-level phenomena to predict network outcomes such as the formation of a tie/edge (often called homophily models[6]) or particular type of triad, or using network phenomena to predict other network phenomena, such as using a triad formation at time 0 to predict tie formation at time 1.
Network analysis software generally consists of either packages based on graphical user interfaces (GUIs), or packages built for scripting/programming languages. GUI packages are easier to learn, while scripting tools are more powerful and extensible. See also[edit] LibSNA: the library for Social Network Analysis. Social Network Analysis, Link Analysis, and Visualization Software.
Image by Fullvector The list includes tools for beginners and experts working in the data field. These tools will help you with data analytics, maintaining databases, perform machine learning tasks, and finally help you generate a report. These tools have also helped me handle new and unseen datasets faster so, if you are looking to become a super data scientist in 2022 then try adding these tools into your data stack.
The tools are divided into five categories: Database Web Scraping Data Analytics Machine Learning Reporting Database DuckDB DuckDB is a relational table-oriented database management system that supports SQL queries for generating data analytics. PostgreSQL PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system which has been in development for 30 years by community and for community. Web Scraping Beautiful Soup Beautiful Soup is a Python library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files. Zyte Zyte is a cloud platform for running web crawlers and web scrapers.
Python Julia. Cytoscape: An Open Source Platform for Complex-Network Analysis and Visualization. NodeXL. The simplest, easiest way to get insights into networks, try the free and open NodeXL! Network Overview Discovery and Exploration for Excel 2007/2010/2013 NodeXL provides support for social network analysis in the context of a spreadsheet. See: NodeXL is a project from the Social Media Research Foundation and is a collaboration among: NodeXL is the free and open add-in for Excel that supports network overview, discovery and exploration.
The code and application can be found at NodeXL requires Office 2007, 2010 or 2013. A video tutorial for NodeXL can be found at: A book Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a connected world is available from Morgan-Kaufmann: Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World Supporting documentation can be found at Social Media Research Related Publications Do You Know the Way to SNA? INSNA home page @insna.org.
International Network for Social Network Analysis. LibSNA: the library for Social Network Analysis.