Chapter 13 Useful websites

The Michell Centre for Social Network Analysis at the University of Manchester has compiled and made available a very insightful collection of datasets on Covert Networks. They are accessible via the Ucinet repository.
Robert A. Hanneman and Mark Riddle from the University of California Riverside have an online free textbook introducing the basics of formal approaches to social network analysis.
There are a number of software packages currently available to carry out social network analysis. Gephi is a free open source software with excellent visualisation algorithms. There are packages for the R Project that have been specifically developed to analyse network data (‘sna’, ‘igraph’); similarly for Python. Ucinet is a user-friendly software package that does not require programming skills in its stand-alone version; it is also available as R package. Pajek is a free software optimised for the analysis and visualisation of very large networks.