A quick overview of the features of NodeXL, the network overview, discovery, and exploration add-in for Excel 2007. This tool allows for visualizing directed graphs and social networks within Excel. It provides several network metrics and manipulation tools. Networks can be imported from Twitter and personal email.

1. NodeXL: Project Network NodeXL Network overview, discovery and exploration for Microsoft Excel 2007 http://www.codeplex.com/nodexl

2. NodeXL Network overview, discovery and exploration for Microsoft Excel 2007 http://www.codeplex.com/nodexl Dan Fay ( MSR Redmond ) Cody Dunne ( U Maryland ) Marc Smith ( Telligent ) Vladimir Barash ( MSR Silicon Valley / Cornell ) Tony Capone ( MSR Redmond ) Natasa Milic-Frayling ( MSR Cambridge ) Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues ( MSR Cambridge ) Eric Gleave ( U Washington ) Adam Perer ( U Maryland ) Ben Shneiderman ( U Maryland )

3. Problem: No network chart in Excel

6. Social Network Analysis Toolkit Tools to support the study of the social network structure social media and other network structures Sociologist “ What are the structures of communication in scientific discussions?” User Experience Information Visualization “ What are the best UI/UX workflows for network analysis tools?” Computer Scientist Algorithmicist for Social Network Measures “ What are the measures and algorithms needed for understanding networks?”

15. NodeXL: Display nodes sorted by network attributes u sing Excel Data|Sort

16. NodeXL: Get reports of global network metrics Metric Value Graph Type Directed Unique Edges 7,852 Edges With Duplicates 0 Total Edges 7,852 Self-Loops 10 Vertices 174 Graph Density 0.260514259

19. NodeXL: Viewing the whole graph

21. NodeXL: Apply dynamic filters to the data

23. NodeXL: Decorated Network Graphs

24. NodeXL: filtered, decorated, labeled networks

25. NodeXL: Clustered networks

26. NodeXL: Filtered clusters

27. NodeXL: Add URLS to Right-click menu of Nodes

28. NodeXL: Import social networks from email

29. NodeXL: Import social networks from email

32. NodeXL Network overview, discovery and exploration for Microsoft Excel 2007 http://www.codeplex.com/nodexl Dan Fay ( MSR Redmond ) Cody Dunne ( U Maryland ) Marc Smith ( Telligent ) Vladimir Barash ( MSR Silicon Valley / Cornell ) Tony Capone ( MSR Redmond ) Natasa Milic-Frayling ( MSR Cambridge ) Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues ( MSR Cambridge ) Eric Gleave ( U Washington ) Adam Perer ( U Maryland ) Ben Shneiderman ( U Maryland )

33. NodeXL: Project Network NodeXL Network overview, discovery and exploration for Microsoft Excel 2007 http://www.codeplex.com/nodexl