[Air-L] Free/low cost forum analysis tools?

[Sugar, Benjamin N]

If you’re looking for tools that do not require any programming, I’d take a look at Gephi (or Cytoscape).

While they’re normally known as visualization programs, given a list of edges, they will both run a number of basic analyses.

Are you looking for analyses that you can simply run on a forum or do you already have the to/from list of edges?

Ideally, how programming heavy can the tool be?  Besides tools that are entirely programmatic (e.g. iGraph, NetworkX) there are some middle ground tools that will run a analysis from the command line, but only require you to enter in the proper command.

Social network analysis can mean a lot of things.  What types of things are you interested in knowing?

Benjamin