documentation

the documentation of the visone software is still fragmentary. There is a short first steps guide describing some of the basic concepts. Various articles linked from the publications page explain details of analysis and visualization methods used.

Selected Publications

• Ulrik Brandes and Dorothea Wagner: visone - Analysis and Visualization of Social Networks. In Michael Jünger and Petra Mutzel (Eds.): Graph Drawing Software, pp. 321-340. © Springer-Verlag, 2004.
• Ulrik Brandes and Thomas Erlebach (Eds.): Network Analysis: Methodological Foundations. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Tutorial, vol. 3418. © Springer-Verlag, 2005.
• Ulrik Brandes, Patrick Kenis, and Jörg Raab: Explanation through network visualization. Methodology 2(1):16-23, 2006.
• Ulrik Brandes and Dorothea Wagner: Netzwerkvisualisierung (in German). it - Information Technology, 46(3):129-134. Oldenbourg, 2004
• Ulrik Brandes, Patrick Kenis, and Dorothea Wagner: Communicating Centrality in Policy Network Drawings. IEEE Transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics 9(2):241-253, 2003. © IEEE Computer Society, 2003.
• Michael Baur, Marc Benkert, Ulrik Brandes, Sabine Cornelsen, Marco Gaertler, Boris Köpf, Jürgen Lerner, and Dorothea Wagner: visone - Software for Visual Social Network Analysis. Proc. 9th Intl. Symp. Graph Drawing (GD '01), LNCS 2265, pp. 463-464. © Springer-Verlag, 2002.
• Ulrik Brandes, Jörg Raab, and Dorothea Wagner: Exploratory Network Visualization: Simultaneous Display of Actor Status and Connections. Journal of Social Structure 2(4), 2001.
• Ulrik Brandes: Layout of Graph Visualizations. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Konstanz. June 1999.

Posters

• Michael Baur, Ulrik Brandes, Jürgen Lerner, and Dorothea Wagner: Analysis and Visualization of Social Networks. At the Closing Colloquium of the DFG Schwerpunktprogramm 1126, Karlsruhe, Germany, May 2008.
• Michael Baur, Ulrik Brandes, and Dorothea Wagner: Attribute-Based Visualisation in visone. At the 15th Intl. Symp. Graph Drawing (GD '07), Sydeny, Australia, September 2007.
  An abstract of the poster is also available.

Presentations

• Michael Baur: visone - Analysis and Visualization of Social Networks. At the International Conference on Advanced Political Network Modeling, June 2007, Mannheim, Germany.

POLNET Summer School

The seminar is a basic introduction to social network analysis. It is intended for MA and PhD students as well as researchers interested in theoretically driven empirical research on networks in the social sciences. By using a concrete data set of relationships among a set of actors, the Summer School will introduce UCINET and visone as methodological tools for analyzing these data.