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NodeXL Events

Our team members regularly present a variety of lectures and training sessions related to NodeXL at universities around the world.  We also deliver talks, tutorials and workshops at online research conferences.

NodeXL Events
In January 2021 we introduced the NodeXL Academy which offers online events around theoretical and practical insights into social media network research with NodeXL. We offer one-day classes as well as full-week courses such as our Social Media Research Summer and Winter Schools.

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In July 2021 we carried out the first NodeXL Academy Summer School. After receiving great feedback from the attendees, we conducted the NodeXL Academy Winter School in January 2022 and 2023. We now offer the NodeXL Summer and Winter Schools every year.

Upcoming Events

May 14th to 15th, 2026: NodeXL Academy Social Media Network Research Symposium

Advance Your Research. Transform Your Practice. Join the Vanguard. We invite you to the premier global gathering dedicated exclusively to advancing social media network research through NodeXL. This is not another webinar, this is a strategic convergence of the brightest minds pioneering the next generation of network analysis methodologies.

For two intensive afternoons, you will join an exclusive cohort of researchers and practitioners defining the future of computational social science. This is where theoretical rigor meets practical application, where academic insight drives industry innovation.


March 09, 2026: Advanced Network Analysis: Mastering NodeXL for Academic Research

Are you ready to move beyond basic analysis and master professional network research techniques? This intensive half-day workshop provides comprehensive, hands-on training in NodeXL for academic applications, led by two of the field’s most respected experts.

Transform Your Research with Advanced Network Analysis. Designed for researchers who are serious about incorporating sophisticated network analysis into their work, this paid workshop offers premium instruction, practical skills, and valuable certification – all in one focused session.


Past Events

January 12 to 15 January, 2026: Social Media Network Research Winter School 2026 The Social Media Research Foundation’s 5th annual Winter School is an intensive 4-day online event around social media research and social network analysis using NodeXL.
If you can make a pie chart, you can now make a network chart!
Join us for expert talks, tutorials and one-on-one sessions with our instructors from Team NodeXL. Learn tips and tricks to collect, analyze, visualize, report and present insights into social media networks with no previous knowledge required.

December 17, 2025: Social network analysis using NodeXL – Workshop in Arabic Learn how to leverage NodeXL in academic research!
NodeXL Pro offers easy access to social media data streams, advanced network metrics, text and sentiment analysis, and the ability to create powerful reports with just a few clicks.
A limited number of academic and student tickets are available… Be sure to book yours early.

لتحليل الشبكات الاجتماعية باستخدام NodeXL -ورشة عمل باللغة العربية
تتضمن الورشة عرض مقدمة عن أهمية أبحاث وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي، ونظرة عامة على برنامج NodeXL Pro لتحليل بيانات وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي.
للملتقى عدد محدود من التذاكر الأكاديمية والطلابية … احرص على حجز تذكرتك باكراً*
اكتشف كيف يمكن لأبحاث وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي أن تطلق العنان للكشف عن الرؤى الخفية في وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي، وتحسين بحثك الأكاديمي، وفهم سلوك الجمهور، والبقاء في صدارة الاتجاهات البحثية الجديدة وأدواتها.
يوفر NodeXL Pro وصولاً سهلاً إلى تدفقات بيانات الشبكات الاجتماعية، ومقاييس الشبكة المتقدمة، وتحليل النصوص والمشاعر، وإنشاء تقارير قوية ببضع نقرات فقط.


December 11, 2025: Free Faculty Webinar: Enhance Your Social Media Curriculum with NodeXL Pro

This free faculty-focused webinar introduces you to NodeXL Pro, the powerful yet accessible tool that helps visualize and analyze social media networks. Whether you are teaching communication, media studies, data journalism, sociology, or business, NodeXL Pro gives your students a way to see hidden structures, communities, and conversations within social platforms.


November 07, 2025: Master Social Media Network Analysis – Free NodeXL Pro Research Webinar

Take your social media research to the next level with NodeXL Pro – the premier tool for network analysis. This free research webinar will show you how to harness the power of network science to uncover hidden patterns, influencers, and communities in your data.
Perfect for academics, PhD students, and researchers across social sciences, digital humanities, and marketing fields.


October 30, 2025: Free Faculty Training: Enhance Your Social Media Curriculum with NodeXL Pro

Bring networks to life in your classroom, learn how NodeXL Pro can transform your social media curriculum.
Social media is more than likes, shares, and hashtags, it’s a network of people, conversations, and influence. As an educator, how do you prepare your students to understand these deeper layers?


October 09, 2025: FREE: Master Social Media Network Analysis – NodeXL Pro Research Webinar

Unlock the power of NodeXL Pro—learn to analyze social media networks with real data in this free research webinar.
This one-day online session is designed for students, educators, researchers, and professionals who want to explore how NodeXL Pro turns raw social media data into meaningful network insights.

May 31, 2024: Workshop on Using NodeXL to Develop a Research Paper
Let’s work together and develop a research output in one intensive day!

July 29 to August 02, 2024: NodeXL Academy Summer School 2024 : Social Media Research Winter School – An intensive 5-day online event around social media research and social network analysis using NodeXL. Join us for expert talks, tutorials and one-on-one sessions with our instructors from Team NodeXL. Learn tips and tricks to collect, analyze, visualize, report and present insights into social media networks with no previous knowledge required. Now in our fourth year!


January 25, 2024: NodeXL Event: #AhoraNODEXLhablaEspañol – #8
Conoce cómo funciona NODEXL plataforma de análisis semántico de redes sociales e informes en pocos clics.

January 15 to 19, 2024: NodeXL Academy Winter School 2024: An intensive 5-day online event around social media research and social network analysis using NodeXL. Join us for expert talks, tutorials and one-on-one sessions with our instructors from Team NodeXL. Learn tips and tricks to collect, analyze, visualize, report and present insights into social media networks with no previous knowledge required. Now in our fourth year!

December 12, 2023: NodeXL Instructors Symposium
Learn how your peers are teaching students to “Think Link” using NodeXL. Join us for this online discussion of network science and social media communications instruction. Gather with other researchers and instructors to share ways to teach insights into collections of connections found in social media and beyond!

October 27, 2023: Marketing with NodeXL – social media network analysis with a few clicks
Learn to “Think Link” and gain insights into collections of connections found in social media around brands, organizations, events, products and beyond!

Octubre 19, 2023: NodeXL Event: #AhoraNODEXLhablaEspañol – #7
#AhoraNODEXLhablaEspañol

Conoce cómo funciona NODEXL plataforma de análisis semántico de redes sociales e informes en pocos clics.

October 11, 2023: Introduction to NodeXL for Researchers and Journalists
Learn to “Think Link” and gain insights into collections of connections found in social media and beyond!

NodeXL Academy – July 31 until August 4, 2023: Social Media Research Summer School – An intensive 5-day online event around social media research and social network analysis using NodeXL. Join us for expert talks, tutorials and one-on-one sessions with our instructors from Team NodeXL. Learn tips and tricks to collect, analyze, visualize, report and present insights into social media networks with no previous knowledge required.

NodeXL Academy – January 16 until January 20, 2023: Social Media Research Winter School – An intensive 5-day online event around social media research and social network analysis using NodeXL. Join us for expert talks, tutorials and one-on-one sessions with our instructors from Team NodeXL. Learn tips and tricks to collect, analyze, visualize, report and present insights into social media networks with no previous knowledge required.

NodeXL Academy – November 18, 2022: Data Driven Journalism for Social Media using NodeXL – This workshop aims to equip journalists with the skills needed to extract, analyse & interpret social media data using network analysis.

NodeXL Academy – August 01 until August 5, 2022: Social Media Research Summer School – An intensive 5-day online event around social media research and social network analysis using NodeXL. Join us for expert talks, tutorials and one-on-one sessions with our instructors from Team NodeXL. Learn tips and tricks to collect, analyze, visualize, report and present insights into social media networks with no previous knowledge required.

William Paterson University – April 6, 2022: UPS Lecture Series: Charting collections of connections with Dr. Marc Smith.

NodeXL Academy – March 26, 2022: #AhoraNODEXLhablaEspañol – #5 (3h) with Hernán Hernán Gil Ramírez, Marcos De Colsa, Verónica Espinoza and Vivian Francos via Zoom.

NodeXL Academy – March 25, 2022: Workshop on Using NodeXL to Develop a Research Paper (4h) with Dr Wasim Ahmed and Dr. Marc Smith via Zoom.

NodeXL Academy – Social Media Research Winter School – January 2022: Social networks & NodeXL Pro (5 days) presented by Team NodeXL via Zoom.

The students of the NodeXL Academy Winter School will learn the basics of social network analysis and become advanced NodeXL Pro users within just three days.

The NodeXL Team will provide many practical examples and interesting datasets. We also encourage the attendees to bring in their own research projects for further exploration. In addition, all attendees have the opportunity to discuss their projects in 1-on-1 sessions with a member of Team NodeXL.

On the last day of the event, the attendees are asked to share their new findings with the group in short presentations.

NodeXL Academy – November 19, 2021: Workshop on Using NodeXL to Develop a Research Paper (4h) with Dr Wasim Ahmed and Dr. Marc Smith via Zoom.

FREE NodeXL Pro INSIGHTS Webinar – Identify key people, groups, peak periods – November 17, 2021 with Harald Meier and Dr. Marc Smith via Zoom.

Session 1 (America – Europe): 10 am – 11 am EST / 4 pm – 5 pm CET

Session 2 (America – Asia): 4 pm – 5 pm PST / 9 am – 10 am KST (Nov 18, 2021)

NodeXL Academy – November 06, 2021: #AhoraNODEXLhablaEspañol – #4 (3h) with Dr. Marc Smith, Prof. Hernán Gil, Dr. Verónica Espinoza y Marcos de Colsa and Vivian Francos via Zoom.

GIJC21 – Global Investigative Journalism Conference – November 01-05, 2021: Networks, Clusters, Influencers – Social Network Analysis with NodeXL. Workshop on Nov 3, 2021 with Harald Meier.

6th Daegu Creative City Global Forum- October 27, 2021: Keynote speech by Dr. Marc Smith.

Big Data Analysis – October 25-27, 2021 with Dr. Ismail Fahmi, Dr. Catur Suratnoaji and Dr. Marc Smith (Indonesian event). Sign up here.

NodeXL Academy – October 15, 2021: KOREAN – Introduction to NodeXL social media network analysis in a few clicks (4h) with Prof. Han Woo Park and Dr. Marc Smith via Zoom.

Social Media Research Summer School – July 27, July 29, and August 3, 2021: Social networks & NodeXL Pro (3 days) presented by Team NodeXL via Zoom.

The students of the NodeXL Academy Summer School will learn the basics of social network analysis and become advanced NodeXL Pro users within just three days.

The NodeXL Team will provide many practical examples and interesting datasets. We also encourage the attendees to bring in their own research projects for further exploration.

On the last day of the event, the attendees are asked to share their new findings with the group in short presentations.

NodeXL Academy – May 28, 2021: Introduction to networks and NodeXL Pro (4h) with Dr Wasim Ahmed, Harald Meier and Dr. Marc Smith via Zoom.

NodeXL Academy – May 19, 2021: Social Media Research – Introduction to networks and NodeXL Pro (4h) with Dr. Marc Smith via Zoom.

NodeXL Academy – April 23, 2021: Social Network Analysis Using NodeXL (Intermediate Level) (4h) with Dr. Wasim Ahmed and Dr. Marc Smith via Zoom.

NodeXL Academy – March 26, 2021: Social Network Analysis Using NodeXL (Intermediate Level) (4h) with Dr. Wasim Ahmed, Harald Meier and Dr. Marc Smith via Zoom.

NodeXL Academy – February 19, 2021: Social Media Research: Social Network Analysis Using NodeXL (4h) with Dr. Wasim Ahmed, Harald Meier and Dr. Marc Smith via Zoom.

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