Hi - I've been waiting almost an hour now and no-one has chimed in yet, so...I guess I'll have to do it myself! VOSON (http://voson.anu.edu.au) might suit your purpose. There are two versions: VOSON System is a web app, while VOSON+NodeXL is a plugin to NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com), a social media network analysis tool for Excel 2007. Academic users can access VOSON System and VOSON+NodeXL for free via a service provided by the ANU. Non-academic users can also currently access both tools for free via a service provided by Uberlink Corporation (http://www.uberlink.com.au). There are some training videos available for VOSON System and we are working on one for VOSON+NodeXL. Rob ------------------------------------- Dr Robert Ackland Fellow and Masters Coordinator, Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, The Australian National University e-mail: robert.ackland@anu.edu.au homepage: http://adsri.anu.edu.au/people/robert.php project: http://voson.anu.edu.au Information about the Master of Social Research (Social Science of the Internet specialisation): http://adsri.anu.edu.au/study/msr.php ------------------------------------- Jesper Aagaard Petersen wrote:
Hello all.
I have to do a presentation of what I have dubbed the satanic milieu online, something I have mainly dealt with offline and on a case-by-case basis. As a historian of religions, I have little practical knowledge about statistical representation software, but I just had the idea of making a simple cluster or cloud representing sites and links and so visualizing relations between sites. This is probably way to simple for avantgarde internet research, but it will actually push the history of religions forward quite a bit when it comes to studying ephemeral networks of alternative religiosity.
The end-product should be some kind of cluster map. Any tips for user-friendly programs? All tips will be appreciated, but webbased and/or free downloads will of course be the best.
Best,
Jesper Petersen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.