Some people in my lab are using the graph library Jung: http://jung.sourceforge.net/doc/api/index.html
They are particularly fond of measures of clustering and metrics that I am not too impatient to rewrite in Sage, though it is not necessarily a tough job :-) Nathann On Feb 25, 1:40 pm, Minh Nguyen <nguyenmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi David, > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:07 PM, David Joyner <wdjoy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > <SNIP> > > > One thought is to make it easier to use the graph theory functionality to do > > things useful in social network analysis. This would involve R and Sage and > > NetworkX (all standard components). Lots of people are interested in > > SNA, from google to the military. It would require some knowledge of > > probability, statistics, and graph theory. > > NetworkX provides many useful features for social network analysis > (SNA). A pressing concern at the moment is to get the NetworkX spkg in > Sage upgraded to at least version >= 1.0; see ticket #7608 > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7608 > > R has a third-party package for SNA. The R spkg was recently upgraded > to version 2.10.1. I don't see what else one could do about R as > NetworkX is (from my experience) much faster than R's sna package for > SNA related functionalities (think of networks with tens of thousands > of nodes). Over the last year, I have come across some feature > requests on the NetworkX mailing list. With some questioning and > literature search, it's possible to get an idea of what needs to be > implemented/improved in NetworkX and/or Sage for SNA. > > -- > Regards > Minh Van Nguyen -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
