Ubuntu Manpage: socnetv - Visualize and analyze social networks

NAME

        socnetv - Visualize and analyze social networks

SYNOPSIS

       socnetv < file.net >

       socnetv -V | --version

       socnetv -h | --help

DESCRIPTION

       Social  Network  Visualiser (SocNetV) is a cross-platform, user-friendly application for the analysis and
       visualization of Social Networks.

       With SocNetV you can:

       • Draw social networks with a few clicks on a virtual canvas, load field data from a file in a  supported
         format  (GraphML,  GraphViz,  EdgeList,  GML,  Adjacency,  Edgelist,  Pajek, UCINET, etc.) or crawl the
         internet to create a social network of connected webpages.

       • Edit actors and ties through point-and-click, analyse graph  and  social  network  properties,  produce
         beautiful HTML reports and embed visualization layouts to the network.

FEATURES

These are the main features and routines of SocNetV:

• Standard graph-theoretic and network cohesion metrics, such as density, diameter, geodesics and
distances, connectedness, eccentricity, clustering coefficient, walks, etc.

• Matrix routines: Adjacency plot, Laplacian matrix, Degree matrix, Cocitation, etc.

• Advanced structural measures for social network analysis such as centrality and prestige indices (i.e.
eigenvector and closeness centrality, betweenness centrality, information centrality, power centrality,
proximity and pagerank prestige),

• Community detection algorithms such as triad census, clique census, etc.

• Structural equivalence analysis, using hierarchical clustering, actor similarities and tie profile
dissimilarities, pearson coefficients, etc.

• Random network creation, i.e. Erdos-Renyi, Watts-Strogatz, scale-free, ring lattice, etc.

• One-click recreation of well-known social network datasets such as Padgett's Florentine families.

• Layout algorithms based on either prominence indices (i.e. circular, level and nodal sizes by
centrality score) or force-directed models (i.e. Eades, Fruchterman-Reingold, etc) for meaningful
visualizations of your social network data.

• Multirelational loading and editing. You can load a network consisting of multiple relations or create
a network on your own and add multiple relations to it.

• Built-in web crawler, allowing you to automatically create networks from links found in a given initial
URL.

• Comprehensive documentation, both online and while running the application, which explains each feature
and algorithm of SocNetV in detail.

• Binary packages for Windows, Linux and MacOS.

DOCUMENTATION

       The   documentation,   licensed   under   the   Free   Documentation   License  (FDL),  is  available  at
       <http://socnetv.org/docs/index.html>

OPTIONS

       --version | -V
              Displays the version of the program.

       --help | -H
              Displays a short help message.

       file.net
              The name of the file you want to open.

USAGE

       SocNetV has a simple Graphical User Interface (GUI). The biggest (right) part of the window  is  occupied
       by  a  virtual  "canvas"  where network nodes and edges appear. To the left of it, there is a dock with 4
       buttons (add/remove node, add/remove link) and some LCDs which display statistics.  On  the  top  of  the
       window,  you  will  find the menu with all commands and options, and at the bottom there is a status bar,
       where messages appear.

       To create a new node, you can double-click on the canvas or click on the "add node" button.

       To create a  new  link,  you  can  middle-click  on  the  source  node  and  then  on  the  target  node.
       Alternatively, you can click on the "add link" button from the dock.

       You move a node by left-clicking and dragging it. When you right-click on a node, a context menu appears.
       From  there you can remove the node, change its color, label, size as well as its shape. SocNetV supports
       many kinds of node shapes, i.e rectangles, diamond, ellipse, circle, etc. A similar  menu   appears  when
       you right click on a link.

Supported Formats

       The  default  file  format  for  reading  and saving social network is GraphML. Nevertheless, SocNetV can
       import various other formats (see below).

       You can load GraphML files by clicking on menu File > Load. To load other network formats, use  the  menu
       File -> Import.

       SocNetV supports the following network data formats:

       • GraphML (.graphml or .xml)

       • GML (.gml or .xml)

       • GraphViz (.dot)

       • Adjacency matrix (.sm, .adj or .csv )

       • Pajek (.net, .paj or .pajek),

       • UCINET's Data Language (.dl)

       • edge list (.lst or .list)

       • Weighted Lists (.wlst or .wlist)

Layout algorithms

       SocNetV  also  supports  a  variety of layout algorithms, such as spring-embedder (i.e. energy based) and
       centralities-based. The latter reposition all nodes in circles of different radiuses (i.e.  more  central
       nodes  appear  near the centre of the canvas) or in levels of different height (more central nodes appear
       near to the top).

       You can apply layout algorithms from the menu Layout or by clicking on the checkboxes on  the  dock.  Not
       all layouts appear on the dock, though.

KNOWN BUGS

       The  network  file  parser  is not 100% trustworthy. For instance, complicated Pajek or GraphML files can
       crash the application.

       Antialiasing is on by default. This slows down the application when the network has many nodes and edges.
       You can disable antialiasing by pressing F8 .

AUTHOR

       Dimitris Kalamaras <dimitris.kalamaras@gmail.com>

BUG REPORTS

       Report bugs to https://github.com/socnetv/app/issues

       In order to send a meaningful bug report, run socnetv from a terminal, press  F9  and  repeat  the  steps
       which  lead  to  bug  manifestation.  SocNetV will be printing debug messages on the standard output (the
       terminal in Linux).

AVAILABILITY

       The latest version of this program can be found at <http://socnetv.org>.  It  is  distributed  in  source
       code  and  binary  packages  for Linux distributions, image disks for Mac OS X and zipped executables for
       Windows.

       To   get   the   latest   development   version   use:   git    clone    -b    develop    --single-branch
       https://github.com/socnetv/app.git socnetv

COPYRIGHT

       This  program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License 3 as published by the Free
       Software Foundation <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. See the built-in  help  for  details  on  the
       License and the lack of warranty.