analysis and visualization of social networks

in a long-term research project, the visone project team is developing models and algorithms to integrate and advance the analysis and visualization of social networks.

part of visone is the design and implementation of a software tool intended for research and teaching in social network analysis. it is specifically designed to allow experts and novices alike to apply innovative and advanced visual methods with ease and accuracy.

news

June 25, 2008: visone 2.3.5 is available. This release corrects an error which prevented visone on Windows systems to save to existing files (list of changes).

January 25, 2008: visone 2.3.0 is available. In the last year we released mainly error-correcting versions of visone and spend much time improving the source code for a new major release. visone 2.3.0 is the result of this effort. This release is more stable and consistant than versions 2.2.x and will be the base to add new features in the next weeks and months. Please see the list of changes for more details.

main features of the visone software

• interactive graphical user interface, tailored to social networks
• innovative network visualizations
• support of unconfirmed relations
• available in Java for windows, linux, and mac os
• import and export of standard formats for social network data
• publication-quality export in JPEG, PDF, SVG, postscript, and other formats