Digital Humanities: Network Analysis

Gephi is the leading visualization and exploration software for all kinds of graphs and networks. Gephi is open-source and free.

NodeXL Basic is add-in for Microsoft® Excel® (2007, 2010, 2013, 2016), which supports social network and content analysis. Paid premium versions are also available.

A Palladio project begins first with the tabular data you have on your computer. Once you’ve uploaded this data into the Palladio interface, you can then refine it, visualize, and save it. Palladio provides data-driven tools for analyzing relationships across time.

Six Degrees of Francis Bacon is a digital reconstruction of the early modern social network that scholars and students from all over the world can collaboratively expand, revise, curate, and critique.

The open syllabus project includes more than 6 millions syllabi for college courses. Scroll down the page, to find "The Co-Assignment Galaxy" and click "Explore Graph" to view the network visualization.

Network visualizations can help humanities scholars reveal hidden and complex patterns and structures in textual sources. This tutorial explains how to extract network data (people, institutions, places, etc) from historical sources through the use of non-technical methods developed in Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA) and Social Network Analysis (SNA), and how to visualize this data with the platform-independent and particularly easy-to-use Palladio, by Marten Düring.

An introduction to network analysis in the humanities, by Scott Weingart.

Network Analysis and visualization appears to be an interesting tool to give the researcher the ability to see its data from a new angle. Because Gephi is an easy access and powerful network analysis tool, we propose a tutorial designed to allow everyone to make their first experiments on two complementary datasets.