Social Media Research Foundation Newsletter - 2025

News and updates from the NodeXL team

NodeXL Pro INSIGHTS Standard available for all NodeXL Pro users

NodeXL Pro INSIGHTS Standard is now available for all NodeXL Pro users. NodeXL Pro INSIGHTS publishes social media network data about X/Twitter or BlueSky into an interactive, web based, data dashboard that makes exploration and explanation of social media patterns easy. All NodeXL Pro users van now just collect X/Twitter data or BlueSky and publish a interactive dashboard…

Create interactive dashboards that reveal the key people, groups, topics, messages, and events in a collection of messages from BlueSky. NodeXL support for the BlueSky social media platform now includes data importers and the ability to export to the NodeXL Pro INSIGHTS dashboard. These imports can then be analyzed using the NodeXL Pro settings options file (“recipe”) for…

By Dr. Veronica Espinoza published on medium.com In this tutorial, Dr. Espinoza walks you through how to connect a NodeXL workbook (e.g. from Twitter data) to Graphistry using Python. She shows step-by-step how to import the workbook URL, set up credentials, and render your network visually in Graphistry’s interactive GPU-accelerated environment. (She draws from the NodeXL Gallery as…

NodeXL in the classroom: Indonesia

Integrated Digital Laboratory – UPN “Veteran” Jawa Timur The Integrated Digital Laboratory under the Faculty of Social, Cultural, and Political Sciences at Universitas Pembangunan Nasional “Veteran” Jawa Timur – Indonesia and led by Dr. Irwan Dwi Arianto, M.I.Kom., focuses on advancing social research methodologies based on big data and providing training in digital communication analysis. The laboratory emphasizes…

By Dr. Veronica Espinoza|Read the full guide on Medium → In her comprehensive 2024 visual guide, Dr. Veronica Espinoza explains how to make the most of NodeXL importers tools that let you collect, analyze, and visualize data from social media platforms such as Twitter (X), Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, Flickr, and WhatsApp. She also explores ways to use external…

A Simpler Way to Explore Network Analysis Based on research conducted by Dr. Veronica Espinoza, published on Medium.com: Read the full article here… In today’s connected world, everything is part of a network, from people talking on social media to organizations sharing data. Yet few tools make it easy to actually see and understand those connections. In her…

Connect to Networks with NodeXL

Learn about all the latest features of NodeXL Pro with our new free ebook: Connect to Networks with NodeXL: The official guide.

This volume will soon be available in a variety of languages. Let us know if you would like the guide translated to your preferred language!

Now Available:
English
Spanish
Arabic
Korean

NodeXL Pro Tutorials

Learn advanced features of NodeXL Pro with these step-by-step tutorials:

Import from Instagram post networks

Import from TikTok networks

Visualize your NodeXL data in Graphistry using Python

Wikipedia Article-Article Networks

Flickr related tag networks

Analyzing YouTube User Networks

How to Automate NodeXL Pro (pdf file) (video)

Social network and content analysis with Twitter network data – step by step

Semantic Networks – Create networks with words, hashtags or video tags

En español: Redes Semánticas con NodeXL

En español: Redes semánticas con NodeXL Pro a partir de transcripciones de entrevistas cualitativa

The Official NodeXL Book

Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL:
Insights from a Connected World (2nd edition)

We proudly present the second edition of our book Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World. The book has been published by Elsevier (available since June 19th, 2019). This edition updates many of the changes in the NodeXL application since the publication of the first edition (in 2010!). Learn how to use Automation, Time Series, Word and Word Pair analysis, and how to collect data from Wikis, Twitter, and YouTube!

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