Getting Started

The book Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World is the most comprehensive source on NodeXL. It introduces the tool and the network concepts using a few simple datasets available below:

• Kite Network dataset
• Serious Eats dataset
• US Senate 2007 dataset

If you plan to use the book in a classroom setting, please contact Derek Hansen (shakmatt@gmail.com). Derek is keeping track of the courses where NodeXL is being used. Feedback is welcome.

NodeXL SNA Classes and Teaching Resources: How to learn about collections of connections

A draft slide deck providing an overview of NodeXL is available here.

Also see the NodeXL one-page flyer.

Help Support NodeXL!

Help support the continued development of NodeXL with your donation to the Social Media Research Foundation's NodeXL project fund.

Publications

See the list of NodeXL publications.

If you would like to cite NodeXL in an academic publication, please use some form of the following:

Smith, M., Milic-Frayling, N., Shneiderman, B., Mendes Rodrigues, E., Leskovec, J., Dunne, C., (2010). NodeXL: a free and open network overview, discovery and exploration add-in for Excel 2007/2010, http://nodexl.codeplex.com/ from the Social Media Research Foundation, http://www.smrfoundation.org

Posts About NodeXL

• ThreadMill 0.1: Social Accounting for Message Thread Collections 
• SocialnetImporter for NodeXL: Import your Facebook ego-networks
• October 9-11, 2011: IEEE 2011 Social Computing, Boston: NodeXL Paper on “Group-in-a-box” layouts 
• The Social Media Research Foundation – Slides
• A bundle of new features for NodeXL v.177: Edges++
• 3rd Party Data Importers for NodeXL: Web, Exchange, and Facebook Importers
• NodeXL Graph Gallery on the web: Collectively Authored Archives of Networks
• NodeXL (v.174) throws a curve: edges that bend (a bit)
• Help file for NodeXL (v.172+)
• NodeXL Exchange Spigot: Extract social networks from enterprise email
• A legend in your own network graph: NodeXL legend describes data elements
• A Sample Settings File for NodeXL: An automated recipie for making Twitter network visualizations
• NodeXL v.167 – New features for handling groups of nodes in a network (and a few other things)
• NodeXL: Automatically Collapse Groups in v.166 with Autofill Columns and Conditional Collapse
• NodeXL: Clusters, components and groups – Creating and managing collections of vertices 
• Getting into shape(s) with NodeXL
• Setting forth: saving NodeXL option settings – how to exchange your expert configurations in NodeXL
• NodeXL (v.166) Keyboard Shortcuts
• Mapping social networks in Twitter Lists with NodeXL (v.161)
• Video: Talk at Personal Digital Archives 2011 at the Internet Archive (24 February 2011)
• Group-in-a-box – a new layout option in NodeXL (v.164)
• How to build a collection of influential followers in Twitter using social network analysis and NodeXL
• 2011 State of the Union: Mapping the connections among Twitter users who tweet about SOTU
• Gerd Waloszek, SAP User Experience review of the NodeXL book
• Lewis Shepherd's blog post on NodeXL
• Sorin Matei's post about social media networks
• Aggregate Overall Metrics Feature: Finding patterns in collections of many networks using NodeXL
• Geocode your Twitter network with NodeXL
• A network guide to NodeXL features: The new NodeXL sample network (in v.159)
• HICSS 2011 Paper: EventGraphs: Charting Collections of Conference Connections
• Mapping the connections among the #wikileaks, #pdfleaks and #cablegate mentioning twitter populations with #NodeXL
• Recent links to NodeXL related commentary and reviews
• How to run NodeXL on a connected Mac (or other platform) using Amazon EC2
• A collection of NodeXL images on flickr: How many kinds of networks do you see?
• Book: Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a connected world now available
• Fully automatic: NodeXL can build your network graphs hands free
• Expand and Collapse Groups of Vertices with NodeXL v.132
• Latest version of NodeXL gains Web 1.0 Hyperlink Network Importer: VOSON “spigot”
• How to schedule the creation of a network with NodeXL and Windows Task Scheduler
• Bernie Hogan’s Facebook Network Map featured in Journal of Social Structure (JOSS) (Made with NodeXL)
• Automatic for the people (who use the latest NodeXL!). Release v.1.0.1.128
• Paper: Tech Report at University of Maryland on EventGraphs
• Mapping the connections among people who tweet #sunbelt
• Pierre De Vries Telco Industry Network Map featured in Journal of Social Structure (JOSS) (Made with NodeXL)
• New NodeXL Network Server (v1.0.1.126) – Frequently Asked Questions
• Mapping #e2 OR #e2conf connections in Twitter with NodeXL
• Request a NodeXL Social Media Network Map
• NodeXL Image in NewScientist: Paper trail: Inside the stem cell wars
• June 3 and 4, 2010 – Personal Democracy Forum 2010 – NYC
• NodeXL TwitterScope: social media science in a bucket
• Mapping connections among twitter users who tweet CRM, SCRM, and Social Graph
• Contrasting “climate change” and “global warming” twitter maps with NodeXL
• Visualizing the connections among twitter users who tweet “oil spill” with NodeXL
• SNAP new network metrics into NodeXL – performance, speed, and scale updates and additions in NodeXL v.122
• Mapping the twitter network of WWW2010 with NodeXL
• Bernie Hogan’s Facebook Social Network Data Provider and Visualization toolkit
• The NodeXL User Registration and Survey
• Contrasting “ashtag” with “ashcloud” Twitter networks with NodeXL
• Mapping the Twitter networks of #Chirp with NodeXL
• Mapping the Twitter networks of #CHI2010 with NodeXL
• Ordering smaller components in a graph – a NodeXL feature tip
• Data provider (spigots) in NodeXL: networks extracted from social media
• Right-click nodes in the NodeXL graph pane to link to lots of things.
• Graph Select, Zoom, Scale and Pan updates in NodeXL (v.1.0.1.117)
• How do airline twitter network maps compare? United v. Delta Airlines mapped in NodeXL
• Getting Edgy with NodeXL (v.1.0.1.120): Variable line types for ties
• Sparklines guide Dynamic Filters for social networks in NodeXL v.1.0.1.111
• NodeXL update: v.1.0.110 – New histograms of network metrics on Overall Metrics worksheet
• Path and Component Metrics, new in NodeXL v.1.0.1.109
• Node and Venn: NodeXL can create Venn Diagrams!
• Component Binning: a network layout improvement in NodeXL v.108
• Slides: NodeXL overview: social media network analysis
• flickr user, tag, and photo networks are now available in NodeXL
• YouTube user and video networks in NodeXL v100+
• Video: Using NodeXL to map the “digg” mentioning Twitter population
• Twitter & flickr networks in NodeXL – Version 95: Lots of new features! Improved Performance!
• Paper (using NodeXL!): Tweet the Debates: Understanding Community Annotation of Uncollected Sources
• Three papers on social media networks (and photos) at Social Computing 2009
• Paper in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication: Discussion Catalysts in Political Discussions
• New Tutorial Available: Analyzing Social Media Networks: Learning by Doing with NodeXL
• 2009 – C&T – NodeXL and Social Queries – a social media network analysis tool kit
• Coming soon from NodeXL: v.86 preview and beyond
• Updated: Version 85 of NodeXL: new controls for Visual Properties of graphs
• SLIDES: Updated NodeXL slides with version 84 interface elements
• 2009 ICWSM Poster – Distinguishing Knowledge vs Social Capital in Social Media with Roles and Context
• NodeXL Research Group Meeting: Version 84 emerges with “Schemes”
• VIDEO: NodeXL demo from Eduarda from Microsoft Research Cambridge at EU Innovation Day event
• NodeXL v.79 enters the matrix
• NodeXL v78: It zooms! It scales! It downloads 6,000+ times!