{"id":170001,"date":"2008-11-20T06:50:18","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T06:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/research\/project\/nodexl-network-overview-discovery-and-exploration-in-excel\/"},"modified":"2019-08-19T10:27:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T17:27:55","slug":"nodexl-network-overview-discovery-and-exploration-in-excel","status":"publish","type":"msr-project","link":"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/research\/project\/nodexl-network-overview-discovery-and-exploration-in-excel\/","title":{"rendered":"NodeXL: Network Overview, Discovery and Exploration in Excel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NodeXL is a powerful and easy-to-use interactive network visualisation and analysis tool that leverages the widely available MS Excel application as the platform for representing generic graph data, performing advanced network analysis and visual exploration of networks. The tool supports multiple social network data providers that import graph data (nodes and edge lists) into the Excel spreadsheet.<\/p>\n<p>The tool includes an Excel template for easy manipulation of graph data:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/nodexl-senatorvoting.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1202\" height=\"936\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NodeXL includes a number of features, summarized in the NodeXL Chart:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/nodexl-introtutorial-layout-v2_graphimage-2.png \" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"313\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Research Overview<\/h2>\n<div id=\"en-usprojectsnodexldefault\" class=\"page-content\">\n<p>The NodeXL team is conducting interdisciplinary research in the following areas:<\/p>\n<table id=\"pastedTable\" style=\"height: 223px;\" width=\"821\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\">\n<thead><\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#ffffff\">\n<table id=\"pastedTable\" style=\"height: 162px;\" width=\"689\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<thead><\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#666655\">\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Network Analysis Toolkit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Tools to support the study of the social network structure, social media and other network structures<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<table id=\"pastedTable\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"15\">\n<thead align=\"middle\"><\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#ccccbb\">\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Sociology<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&#8220;What are the structures of communication in scientific discussions?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#ddff88\">\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>User Experience:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Information Visualization<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&#8220;What are the best UI\/UX workflows for network analysis tools?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#ddeeee\">\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Computer Science:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>\u00a0Algorithms for Network Analysis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&#8220;What are the measures and algorithms needed for understanding networks?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><strong>Sample\u00a0networks generated with NodeXL<\/strong><\/h4>\n<div id=\"en-usprojectsnodexldefault\" class=\"page-content\">\n<div align=\"left\">\n<table class=\" aligncenter\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"10\" align=\"center\">\n<thead><\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#ffffff\">\u00a0<span id=\"9823cc9b-08e7-4944-a65a-243526fd3e3e\" class=\"ImageBlock fn\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"Image9823cc9b-08e7-4944-a65a-243526fd3e3e\" src=\"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/nodexl-graph1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\u00a0<span id=\"89392dda-a84d-45bd-b68d-8dab67d757da\" class=\"ImageBlock fn\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"Image89392dda-a84d-45bd-b68d-8dab67d757da\" src=\"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/nodexl-graph2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<h4><strong>Project contributers<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p align=\"left\"><span id=\"25a48112-6041-4c5b-8ba0-50d660b82aee\" class=\"ImageBlock fn\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"Image25a48112-6041-4c5b-8ba0-50d660b82aee\" src=\"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/nodexl-2010_-_may_-_nodexl_team_small.png\" alt=\"\" \/><span id=\"ImageCaption25a48112-6041-4c5b-8ba0-50d660b82aee\" class=\"ImageCaptionCoreCss ImageCaption\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>More information about the project can be found at <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.codeplex.com\/\/nodexl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.codeplex.com\/\/nodexl<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Clustered Graph using Harel-Koren layout in NodeXL<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/nodexl-twitter-nogroup.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"644\" height=\"542\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"en-usprojectsnodexldefault\" class=\"page-content\">\n<p><strong>NodeXL &#8216;Group-in-a-box&#8217; 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