Does anyone know a good network/graph visualization software - just add data? [closed]

Answer 1

I haven't tried it myself, but perhaps it's worth a look at Omnigator; I was looking for something similar a while back and "topic maps" is a good phrase to google, as it sounds much like what you are looking for.

Answer 2

NodeXL, the free and open add-in for Excel that supports network overview, discovery and exploration. The code and application can be found at http://www.codeplex.com/nodexl.

NodeXL allows for the import of network data in the form of edge lists, matricies, graphML, UCINet, and Pajek files along with CSV and other workbooks.

NodeXL allows non-programmers to quickly generate useful network statistics and metrics and create visualizations of network graphs. Filtering and display attributes can be used to highlight important structures in the network.

NodeXL supports the exploration of social media with import features that pull data from personal email indexes on the desktop, twitter, flickr, and soon, facebook.

Recent features added to NodeXL include faster metrics calculation, larger data sets, new layouts, scales, axes, and legends.

Answer 3

If you want it to be interactive, and want to include it into a webpage, you could consider using the flot jquery plugin.

Answer 4

I would strongly recommend JUNG Framework.

Answer 5

I would definitely give networkx / python a try. it supports different visualization api's such as GraphViz, PyDot amongst others. But if you use Flash give Flare a try.

Answer 6

This is the idea behind Network Workbench:

They have combined lots of state of the art graph visualizations into one piece of software with a user interface. You shouldn't need to do any programming other than perhaps to get your data in one of the formats that the tool can read. You should be able to zoom in and out and have the interactivity you want. It's a tool for researchers to do network analysis.