SNA
Crude speaking, Social Network Analysis (SNA), is the analysis of social relationships in terms of mathematical graphs.
Over the last couple of years, I develop Social Networks Visualiser (SocNetV), an open-source application for network analysis and visualization. SocNetV lets you create, load and visualize networks of various formats (GraphViz, Adjacency, Pajek, GraphML, etc), and/or visually create and modify a network using your mouse. Statistics such as centralities, diameter, etc, are easily computer and there’s even some documentation to get you started, in case you don’t know what is SNA!
The application is being developed on Qt, which means that it can be compiled and used on Linux, Windows and Mac, although I do not support Windows or Mac (since I dont use these operating systems!). Any case, if you want to try it, grab the latest SocNetV tarball (binaries are also provided for some distros) from the project’s website:
http://socnetv.sourceforge.net
SocNetV is a GPL3 application, that is free software (free as in freedom). You can copy it, modify it and redistribute it as long as any derivative work remains free software…
If you are interested, visit the International Network for Social Network Analysis website for further info and research related to SNA.
