A Review of NetMiner 4 – Part 1

[Graham Durant-Law]

I’m often asked what tools I use for network analysis. Over the years I’ve tried most of them with the exception of Valdis Kreb’s Inflow . I’ve pretty much settled on UCINET/NetDraw because of its wide acceptance in academic circles; NodeXL because of its flexibility and ease of use for quick and dirty tasks; Sentinel Visualizer because of its link analysis, geospatial views, and timelines capabilities; and Cyram NetMiner because it is an all in one package with great visualisation capabilities. Of these Cyram NetMiner is my tool of choice, although unfortunately new licencing arrangements may change that (see below ). I’ve been using NetMiner since its version 2 release in 2005. In May 2011 Cyram released version 4 of NetMiner and I’m very impressed, although it’s not for the faint-hearted or novice! Here’s the first of a multi-part review.

There are eight packages and five licence types to choose from, which personally I found a bit confusing, particularly as some packages are standard to a licence. The packages are:

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