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SocNetV’s intuitive interface lets you create, analyze, and visualize social networks. Navigate yourself and use the application either with the mouse or the keyboard.
Social Network Visualizer
SocNetV - Social Network Analysis and Visualization Software
Free and Open-Source Tool for Social Network Analysis 🌟
SocNetV is a cross-platform, user-friendly free software application for social network analysis and visualization. With SocNetV you can:
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Draw social networks with a few clicks on a virtual canvas, load field data from a file in a supported format (GraphML, GraphViz, Adjacency, EdgeList, GML, Pajek, UCINET, etc.), or crawl the internet to create a social network of connected webpages.
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Edit actors and ties through point-and-click, analyze graph and social network properties, produce beautiful HTML reports, and embed visualization layouts in the network.
Main Features 🚀
- Standard graph and network cohesion metrics, such as density, diameter, geodesics, distances, connectedness, eccentricity, clustering coefficient, reciprocity, etc.
- Matrix routines: Adjacency plot, Laplacian matrix, Degree matrix, Cocitation, etc.
- Advanced measures for social network analysis such as centrality and prestige indices (e.g., eigenvector centrality, closeness centrality, betweenness centrality, information centrality, power centrality, proximity prestige, and pagerank prestige).
- Fast algorithms for community detection, such as triad census, clique census, etc.
- Structural equivalence analysis using hierarchical clustering, actor similarities, tie profile dissimilarities, and Pearson coefficients.
- Layout models based on prominence indices (e.g., circular, level, nodal sizes by centrality score) or on force-directed placement (e.g., Kamada-Kawai, Fruchterman-Reingold).
- Multirelational network loading and editing.
- Random network creation using various models (Barabási–Albert Scale-Free, Erdős–Rényi, Watts-Strogatz Small-World, d-regular, ring lattice, etc.).
- Famous social network analysis datasets, such as Padgett’s Florentine families.
- Built-in web crawler to automatically create “social networks” from links found in a given URL.
- Comprehensive documentation available both online and inside the application.
Latest version 📥
Installers, packages and executables for Windows, macOS and Linux are available on the Downloads page.
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The program is Free Software, licensed under the GNU General Public License 3 (GPL3). You can copy or modify it, provided you keep the same license. The documentation is also free, licensed under the Free Documentation License (FDL).
Do You Want to Contribute? 🙌 💎
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If you are a C++/Qt developer, you can contribute by committing patches (new features or bug fixes) to our development source code.
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If you are a SocNetV user, you can:
— Report bugs or propose new features in our Issues.
— Donate any amount to the project! Click the button below to donate to our PayPal account:
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Thank you for using and contributing to SocNetV!
Have fun with social network analysis!
At a glance 👀
Explore the nice features of SocNetV to make your social network research real fun!
File Formats
Load and save to GraphML, but you can also import most network file formats (GML, Pajek, UCINET, GraphViz, Adjacency, EdgeList, etc.).
Network Analysis
Compute distances, eccentricity, connectedness, clique census, triad census, and Prominence indices (e.g., eigenvector, betweenness, and information centrality, proximity prestige, PageRank, and more).
Visualization
Apply intuitive visualization layouts on undirected/directed graphs, based on prominence scores or force-directed models.
Famous Networks
Automatically recreate known social network datasets such as Padgett’s Families.
Random Networks
Create random networks using one of the supported models (scale-free, Erdős–Rényi, lattice, small worlds).
Web Crawler
Easily visualize and analyze networks of linked web pages and sites through the built-in web crawler.
Multi-relational
Work with multiple relations concurrently. SocNetV supports loading, editing, and saving multirelational social networks.
Documentation
Learn to work with SocNetV and make use of Social Network Analysis methods by reading our Manual.
Free Software
SocNetV is Free and Open-Source Software. Use it everywhere. Have a feature request? Ask us!