Sure, it may revolutionize the Internet, run our toasters, promote world peace, and induce a general sense of happiness and well being.
But what can it do for social network analysis?
What's social network analysis?
graphLayout is somewhat similar in function to KRACKPLOT, written by David Krackhardt and associates. However, I would not say it is a substitute.
This site demonstrates the Java applet graphLayout written by Arthur van Hoff, one of Java's developers. It takes a set of nodes in edge list format, and uses an heuristic algorithm to move the nodes to optimize stress on the edges. I hacked a script to allow you to give the program your own input.
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