Social Network Analysis
Methods & Tools
Social Network Anlaysis Software
- PC
- UCInet
- Pajek:
There is also a very helpful book out written by the programmers,
that explains the theoretical concepts and shows in screenshots
and commands how to use the statistical routines in Pajek:
Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek (Structural
Analysis in the Social Sciences) (Paperback) by Wouter de
Nooy , Andrej Mrvar , Vladimir Batagelj (2005).
- Netminer:
Software for exploratory data analysis and visualization
- Siena:
Software for the analysis of repeated (longitudinal and dynamic)
network data
- Visone
- Multinet:
MultiNet is an interactive computer program for the analysis
and display of discrete and continuous network data. Especially
useful for complex data and more advanced methods such as
p*.
- R
module for Social Network Analysis
- Mac
- Running UCInet
using the Virtual PC works pretty good, except for those times
when you are in the presentation mode.
- Visone
Online Data
Collection Instruments (web-based)
- Surveymonkey:
to display a long list of actors use rows to display all subjects
and columns for the relational questions (such as advice, information
sharing, etc.)
- Basic subscription is free,
but limited to 10 questions and 100 responses
- You can also find a whole collection of other online tools
on the surveymonkey website (scroll down to "Compare
Us", very convenient)
- Zoomerang:
Zoomerang Basic, free limited-use account (10 days use and limited
number of questions and responses)
- Egonet:
instrument for the collection and analysis of network data
- PHPsurveyor:
open-source online survey tool (free), unlimited number of questions
(20 different question types)
- Classapps:
Professional Survey Software (very expansive..., no free version
available)
- Survelum.com:
targets academics and educators (for free as far as I could see)
Network Visualization
= Representation of social distances
as physical distances
All listed softwares above can be used for data
analysis and representation. They are using iterative optimization
algorithms to adjust a node's position by reactiong to the positions
of others in the network.
- Articles
- Moreno, J. L. (1934/1953). Who shall survive?
Washington, D. C., Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Company.
- Moreno, J. L. (1946). "Sociogram and
sociomatrix: A note to the paper by Forsyth and Katz."
Sociometry 9: 348-349.
- Freeman, L. C. (2001). "Visualizing
Social Networks." Journal of Social Structure.
- Moody, J./McFarland, D./Bender-deMoll, S.
(2005): Dynamic Network Visualization, in: AJS 110/4: 1206-1241.
(inlcudes dynamic network movies)
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