Automate NodeXL Pro > Automate your Flickr network analysis!
NodeXL Pro with “Data Recipes” a.k.a. “NodeXL Options Files” which enable users to perform a full social network and content analysis along with a network visualization with just a few clicks. The key is Task Automation.
The following NodeXL Pro “data recipes” are designed to analyze Flickr network data with just a few clicks. The files contain best practice settings. You can use these as suggestions and easily customize them to your own specifications and save them for future use.
Flickr User Network
This recipe is designed for network data imported with the Flickr Users Network importer. All relevant steps to conduct a full-scale social network analysis are performed. The graph shows an image and a label for every user in the network.
Vertex: Flickr User
Edge: contact, comment
Vertex size: Betweenness centrality
Group clustering algorithm: Clauset-Newman-Moore
Group labels: Top 10 most frequently used words
Layout algorithm: Harel-Koren Fast Multiscale
Box layout algorithm: Group-in-a-Box, Treemap
Flicker Tag Network
This recipe is designed for network data imported with the Flickr Related Tags Network importer. All relevant steps to conduct a full-scale social network analysis are performed. The graph shows a sample image and a label for every tag in the network.
Vertex: Flickr tag with sample image
Edge: co-tag
Vertex size: Betweenness centrality
Group clustering algorithm: Clauset-Newman-Moore
Layout algorithm: Harel-Koren Fast Multiscale
Box layout algorithm: Group-in-a-Box, Treemap