Network Analysis

Tools
Network Analysis
Published

October 1, 2023

Modified

August 6, 2024

This document lists various software platforms for social network analysis and visualization, including Cytoscape, Gephi, NodeXL, and UCINet. Other tools, such as Sentinel Visualizer and Wynyard Group, offer advanced link analysis and data visualization capabilities for law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

Network Analysis Tools

  • 4CAT: A research tool used to analyze and process data from online social platforms. It offers a web interface for data capture and analysis, requiring no programming or web scraping skills.

  • Cytoscape: An open-source software platform for visualizing and analyzing biological networks and complex systems, featuring a wide range of plugins and tools for network analysis and visualization.

  • igraph: An open-source collection of network analysis tools with connectors in R, Python, Mathematica, and C/C++. Includes:

    • python-igraph: A Python connector for the igraph network analysis tools.

    • iPygma: A Jupyter widget using sigma.js and graphology to display interactive networks directly in a notebook cell.

  • Gephi: An open-source graph and network visualization software for exploring, analyzing, and visualizing complex networks with user-friendly interfaces and a variety of layout algorithms.

  • GraphViz: Open source graph visualization software with multiple graph layout programs, web interfaces, and language bindings.

  • Hyphe: A web corpus curation tool featuring a research-driven web crawler for constituting web corpora of hypertext links between actors.

  • Hyphe Browser (HyBro): A desktop application combining a web browser with médialab’s web crawler Hyphe, allowing users to build, curate, and annotate web entities.

  • JuliaGraphs: A collection of Julia packages for studying graphs, including visualization through GraphPlot and NetworkLayout packages.

  • NetMiner: A software package for social network analysis and text mining, providing advanced analytics, visualization, and modeling capabilities.

  • NetworkX: A Python package for the creation, manipulation, and study of the structure, dynamics, and functions of complex networks.

  • NodeXL: An Excel add-in for network analysis and visualization, ideal for exploring social media networks, email networks, and other network types.

  • Onodo: A web-based tool for visualizing and analyzing networks, allowing users to import, explore, and analyze network data collaboratively.

  • ORA: Software for social network analysis and visualization, offering tools to explore, visualize, and analyze complex networks.

  • Pajek: A program for large network analysis and visualization, offering analysis and visualization of very large networks on Windows as a free alternative to UCINET.

  • Polinode: A browser-based tool for organizational network analysis, allowing mapping, visualization, and analysis of relationships across organizations.

  • Sentinel Visualizer: Software offering advanced link analysis and data visualization capabilities, helping to identify hidden relationships and patterns within data for law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

  • SNAP: A general-purpose network analysis and graph mining library, providing algorithms and tools for analyzing large-scale networks efficiently.

  • Social Network Visualizer: Cross-platform software for social network analysis and visualization, supporting various network formats with interactive visualization features.

  • UCINet: Comprehensive software for social network analysis, offering tools for network visualization, analysis, and modeling.

  • visNetwork: An R package for interactive network visualization, built on the vis.js JavaScript library.

  • Visual Investigative Scenarios: A web-based platform for exploring and visualizing complex networks and relationships, useful for journalists, researchers, and investigators.

  • Wynyard Group: Provides software solutions with advanced analytics and investigation capabilities, designed to identify and mitigate criminal and security threats.