Network WorkbenchA Workbench for Network Scientists

Download at http://nwb.slis.indiana.edu

Goal: Develop a large-scale network analysis, modeling and visualization toolkit for physics, biomedical, and social science research.

Amount: $1,120,926, NSF IIS-0513650 award

Duration: Sept. 2005 - Aug. 2008

Website: http://nwb.slis.indiana.edu

Katy Börner

Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

Santiago Schnell

Investigators

Alessandro Vespignani

Stanley Wasserman

Eric Wernert

Software Team

Weixia (Bonnie) Huang, lead

Bruce Herr

Russell Duhon

Tim Kelley

Micah Linnemeier

Heng Zhang

Duygu Balkan

Ann McCranie

Advisory Board

James Hendler

Jason Leigh

Neo Martinez

Michael Macy

Ulrik Brandes

Mark Gerstein

Stephen North

Tom Snijders

Noshir Contractor

A Quick Overview of Research

What is the NWB Tool?

Using the NWB Tool for Scientometrics

Using the NWB Tool for Discrete Network Dynamics

Built using CIShell

Outline

A Quick Overview of ResearchSocial Science, Scientometrics, Economics, Proteomics, and Epidemiology

Social ScienceStudying large scale social networks such as Wikipedia.

Viszards 2007 EntrySecond Sight: An Emergent Mosaic of

Wikipedian ActivityThe New Scientist, May 19, 2007

113 Years of Physical ReviewCitation Patterns Across the History of Physics

ScientometricsStudying science by scientific means.

ProteomicsProtein-Protein Interactions

EconomicsDoes the Type of Product that a Country Exports Matter for Subsequent Economic Performance?

EpidemiologyForecasting (and preventing the effects of) the next pandemic.

What is the NWB Tool?A network analysis, modeling, and visualization toolkit for physics, biomedical, and social science Research

But first, Why is the NWB Tool?

Data

Different Formats

Different Models

Algorithms

Different Purposes

Different Implementations

Different Programming Languages

Different Communities with Different Practices

Different Tools

So, the NWB Tool can work with . . .

Data

Different Formats

Different Models

Algorithms

Different Purposes

Different Implementations

Different Programming Languages

Different Communities with Different Practices

Different Tools

GraphML

XGMML

Pajek .net

Pajek .mat

NWB

TreeML

File Formats

Edgelist

CSV

ISI

Prefuse Alpha

Prefuse Beta

JUNG

Java Object ‘Formats’

We Do It Like This

A Few Features

Windows, Linux, OS X

Write algorithms in Fortran, Java, C++, Jython, or something else

Many algorithms work with large networks

Integrates the excellent GUESS visualization tool

Automatic data conversion

Integrated 2D plotting via Gnuplot

Using the NWB Tool for ScientometricsCo-Authorship, Burst Detection, Et Cetera

Go From Here

To Here

In a few minutes.In a general way.

Using the NWB Tool for Discrete Network Dynamics

Built Using CIShellA General Framework For Integrating Algorithms and Data

Algorithms are Simple

No Networks There...

No networks means moving among data representations is easy.

Thank you.

NSF IIS-0513650 award

http://nwb.slis.indiana.edu

http://cishell.org