<p><a href="http://flare.prefuse.org/">FLARE</a> produces rather beautiful graphs and visualisations, and in fact I have used it for just this purpose with a small private social network. In particular you may want to look at "layouts" in the <a href="http://flare.prefuse.org/demo">demo</a> as it gives an excellent demonstration of transforming between different ways of drawing the graph.</p>

CC BY-SA 2.5
2010-10-17T20:36:10.750Z
2010-10-17T20:36:10.750Z
Joe Fitzsimons
<p>Take a look at <a href="http://ubietylab.net/ubigraph/content/Demos/index.html" rel="nofollow">UBIGRAPH</a>. It is just amazing.</p>

CC BY-SA 3.0
2011-05-17T13:04:45.480Z
Amazing and easy to get something up and running fast.
Dave Clarke
CC BY-SA 3.0
2017-04-26T17:38:41.610Z
That look seems to go to something unrelated now...
StayOnTarget
CC BY-SA 2.5
2011-03-18T20:59:07.583Z
2011-03-18T20:59:07.583Z
Giorgio Camerani
<p>Check <a href="http://networkviz.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">this link</a>
<a href="http://networkviz.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow"></a> for pointers to several network analysis and visualization tools. They include:</p>

<p><a href="http://csbi.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">GINY: Graph INterface librarY</a>
<a href="http://csbi.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow"></a></p>

<p><a href="http://www.touchgraph.com/index.html" rel="nofollow">TouchGraph</a>
<a href="http://www.touchgraph.com/index.html" rel="nofollow"></a></p>

<p><a href="http://www.jgraph.com/" rel="nofollow">JGraph</a>
<a href="http://www.jgraph.com/" rel="nofollow"></a></p>

<p><a href="http://jgrapht.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">JGraphT</a>
<a href="http://jgrapht.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow"></a></p>

<p><a href="http://www.schmuhl.org/graphopt/" rel="nofollow">GraphOpt</a>
<a href="http://www.schmuhl.org/graphopt/" rel="nofollow"></a></p>

<p><a href="http://gvf.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">GVF/Royere</a>
<a href="http://gvf.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow"></a></p>

<p><a href="http://hypergraph.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">Hypergraph</a>
<a href="http://hypergraph.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow"></a></p>

<p>Also, check 
<a href="http://www.graphviz.org/" rel="nofollow">Graphviz</a>
<a href="http://www.graphviz.org/" rel="nofollow"></a>Graph Visualization Software from AT&amp;T Labs and 
<a href="http://www.cytoscape.org/" rel="nofollow">Cytoscape</a>
<a href="http://www.cytoscape.org/" rel="nofollow"></a>: An Open Source Platform for Complex-Network Analysis and Visualization. Cytoscape is  one of the best tools and it is backed by a consortium of corporations and academic institutions.</p>

CC BY-SA 2.5
2010-10-17T18:31:10.607Z
do you have any recommendations as to which of these are better for different applications, or even some of the advantages/disadvantages of them?
Joshua Grochow
CC BY-SA 2.5
2010-10-17T19:27:38.520Z
I would recommend  Cytoscape for molecular and systems biology research. However, it can be used for general network analysis and visualization.
Mohammad Al-Turkistany
CC BY-SA 2.5
2010-10-17T16:21:33.213Z
2010-10-17T17:05:44.423Z
2010-10-17T17:05:44.423Z
Mohammad Al-Turkistany
<p>I have used the Java version of Flare called <a href="http://prefuse.org/" rel="nofollow">Prefuse</a> and I have been quite happy with it.
The "Physics-based force-directed graph layout algorithm" is quite fine.</p>

<p>In my research I did not find any useful tools of the published large graph visualizations (http://blog.vrist.dk/2010/04/15/reading-up-on-dynamic-graph-layout/)</p>

<p>I have a couple of videos of the toolkit in action here: <a href="http://blobvis.appspot.com/screenshots" rel="nofollow">http://blobvis.appspot.com/screenshots</a></p>

CC BY-SA 2.5
2011-01-24T09:39:30.653Z
2011-01-24T09:39:30.653Z
svrist
<p>I've been <em>toying</em> with a combination of <a href="http://www.r-project.org/" rel="nofollow">R</a>, to do the analysis and some visualisation,
and <a href="http://gephi.org/" rel="nofollow">gephi</a>, for visualisation. R seems very powerful, with the right abstractions for doing statistical manipulations. It has three packages (at least) for doing social network analysis, <code>sna</code>, <code>igraph</code>, and <code>network</code>. Gephi has a nice feature for drawing dynamic social networks, but I haven't fully explored its capabilities yet.</p>

CC BY-SA 3.0
2011-05-15T17:56:15.937Z
2011-05-15T19:24:23.457Z
2011-05-15T19:24:23.457Z
Dave Clarke
<p>I started to use gephi which seems to be pretty nice. </p>

CC BY-SA 2.5
2011-01-24T12:30:34.610Z
2011-01-24T12:30:34.610Z
steve
<p>I was using Jung ( <a href="http://jung.sourceforge.net/">http://jung.sourceforge.net/</a> ) to visualize page rank and found it a little slow and difficult to scale it beyond 100 nodes. I was wondering what other tools people use for network / social network analysis and visualization.</p>

CC BY-SA 3.0
2011-05-19T17:56:03.990Z
May I ask what this has to do with cs theory?
Lev Reyzin
CC BY-SA 3.0
2011-05-22T18:10:51.393Z
Visualising of large chunks of information is important for cs theroy, its also its own entire research field.
steve
<graph-theory><big-list><cg.comp-geom><software><graph-drawing>
Network / Social network analysis visualization tools?
steve
# Network / Social network analysis visualization tools?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2010-10-17)

I was using Jung ( <http://jung.sourceforge.net/> ) to visualize page rank and found it a little slow and difficult to scale it beyond 100 nodes. I was wondering what other tools people use for network / social network analysis and visualization.

**Tags:** graph-theory, big-list, cg.comp-geom, software, graph-drawing

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: May I ask what this has to do with cs theory?  
> **username_0**: Visualising of large chunks of information is important for cs theroy, its also its own entire research field.  

---

## 6 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2010-10-17. Score: 6

[FLARE](http://flare.prefuse.org/) produces rather beautiful graphs and visualisations, and in fact I have used it for just this purpose with a small private social network. In particular you may want to look at "layouts" in the [demo](http://flare.prefuse.org/demo) as it gives an excellent demonstration of transforming between different ways of drawing the graph.


---

### Answer by username_6 on 2010-10-17. Score: 5

Check [this link](http://networkviz.sourceforge.net/)
 for pointers to several network analysis and visualization tools. They include:

[GINY: Graph INterface librarY](http://csbi.sourceforge.net/)

[TouchGraph](http://www.touchgraph.com/index.html)

[JGraph](http://www.jgraph.com/)

[JGraphT](http://jgrapht.sourceforge.net/)

[GraphOpt](http://www.schmuhl.org/graphopt/)

[GVF/Royere](http://gvf.sourceforge.net/)

[Hypergraph](http://hypergraph.sourceforge.net/)

Also, check
[Graphviz](http://www.graphviz.org/)
Graph Visualization Software from AT&T Labs and
[Cytoscape](http://www.cytoscape.org/)
: An Open Source Platform for Complex-Network Analysis and Visualization. Cytoscape is one of the best tools and it is backed by a consortium of corporations and academic institutions.

> **Comments:**
> **username_7**: do you have any recommendations as to which of these are better for different applications, or even some of the advantages/disadvantages of them?  
> **username_6**: I would recommend  Cytoscape for molecular and systems biology research. However, it can be used for general network analysis and visualization.  

---

### Answer by username_3 on 2011-03-18. Score: 4

Take a look at [UBIGRAPH](http://ubietylab.net/ubigraph/content/Demos/index.html). It is just amazing.

> **Comments:**
> **username_4**: Amazing and easy to get something up and running fast.  
> **username_5**: That look seems to go to something unrelated now...  

---

### Answer by username_8 on 2011-01-24. Score: 2

I have used the Java version of Flare called [Prefuse](http://prefuse.org/) and I have been quite happy with it.
The "Physics-based force-directed graph layout algorithm" is quite fine.

In my research I did not find any useful tools of the published large graph visualizations (http://blog.vrist.dk/2010/04/15/reading-up-on-dynamic-graph-layout/)

I have a couple of videos of the toolkit in action here: <http://blobvis.appspot.com/screenshots>


---

### Answer by username_4 on 2011-05-15. Score: 2

I've been *toying* with a combination of [R](http://www.r-project.org/), to do the analysis and some visualisation,
and [gephi](http://gephi.org/), for visualisation. R seems very powerful, with the right abstractions for doing statistical manipulations. It has three packages (at least) for doing social network analysis, `sna`, `igraph`, and `network`. Gephi has a nice feature for drawing dynamic social networks, but I haven't fully explored its capabilities yet.


---

### Answer by username_0 on 2011-01-24. Score: 1

I started to use gephi which seems to be pretty nice.


---

