Social network analysis software

The Social network analysis software on Wikipedia is surely a great resource. See also.

Here we collect a list of the software we have used and evaluated with our subjective evaluation.

UCINET

 * License: 40 usd for full time students; 150 usd for universities; 250 usd for corporates.

Pajek

 * license: freely available for noncommercial use
 * for Windows only?
 * Mainly used for large networks

Visone

 * License: free for academic and research purposes, no registration required. Visone is copyrighted by the visone project team, located at Universität Karlsruhe (TH) and Universität Konstanz ("visone team"). All rights reserved. It can be freely distributed in unaltered form. The software is provided "AS IS", with no warranty, express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular use.


 * For Linux, Windows, Mac, Solaris

SocNetv

 * License: Free software licensed under the GNU General Public License 3 (GPL3).
 * The primary target platform is Linux
 * In the network visualization, nodes are positioned in different levels according to their betweeness centrality. Each node's size reflects how many outlinks it has to other nodes.

LaNetV (Large Network visualization tool)

 * License: ???
 * OpenSource version available at: ; otherwise, if you upload a network, you will receive by e-mail a PNG image of the layout. The images are licensed under a Creative Commons License.
 * two-dimensional layout, with an algorithm based on k-core decomposition

Egotistics

 * License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
 * Social network analysis software for ego-networks

Data Visualization mainly
Visual representation of social network is important to see possible patterns of social relations at a first glance. A nice article by Freeman is Visualizing Social Networks by Freeman.

Otter
http://www.caida.org/tools/visualization/otter/paper/

Infovis

 * License: Free software (which license?)
 * for Linux, MacOs, and Windows