Packages for network analysis, simulation, and visualization
Network analysis
ORA, a tool for Dynamic Network Analysis and network visualization. Kathleen M. Carley, 2014, ORA: A Toolkit for Dynamic Network Analysis and Visualization, In Reda Alhajj and Jon Rokne (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining, Springer.
NodeXL for Excel (mainly Windows - but there are solutions for mac too)
igraph or igraph, an open source C (programming language) library for the analysis of large-scale complex networks, with interfaces to R (programming language), Python and Ruby
Orange, a free data mining software suite, module orngNetwork
SEMOSS, an RDF-based open source context-aware analytics tool written in Java, leveraging the SPARQL
webweb, to display interactive networks in a browser.
Tulip, a free data mining and visualization software dedicated to the analysis and visualization of relational data. [1]
tikz, which produces graphs from latex code
Network simulation
- Netlogo for network simulations
- NS-3, a network simulation system
- Mathematica
See also Network simulations
Network visualization
- List of SNA software above (nearly all tools contain visualization capabilities)
- visualizing Twitter