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NodeXL: Simple Network Analysis for Social Media

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Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining

Synonyms

Analysis; Applications; Chart; Data; Graph; Map; Network; SNA; Social media; Social network; Tools; Visualization

Glossary

Node :

An entity or “Vertex”

Edge :

A pair of connected nodes

Group :

A collection of nodes

Centrality :

Measure of position of a node

Network :

Collection of nodes and edges

SNA :

Social network analysis

Introduction

NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) is an application from the Social Media Research Foundation (http://smrfoundation.org) that simplifies basic network analysis tasks and supports analysis of social media networks. Using the widely familiar framework of a spreadsheet, NodeXL integrates the features needed to collect, store, analyze, visualize, and publish network data sets. The tool connects to a wide range of data sources including other SNA packages through GraphML and other network file formats. Special support is provided for social media data sources including Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, flickr, email, blogs, wikis, and the WWW....

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  1. Director, Social Media Research Foundation, Belmont, CA, USA

    Marc A. Smith

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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Smith, M.A. (2014). NodeXL: Simple Network Analysis for Social Media. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6170-8_308

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