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title: "SocNetV 2.3 Released" | ||
description: "SocNetV version 2.3 has been released." | ||
date: 2017-07-05 | ||
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The Social Network Visualizer project is happy to announce that a brand new version of our favorite [social network analysis and visualization software application](http://socnetv.org) has been released. SocNetV version 2.3, released on Jul 5, has the eloquent codename "fixer" and it is now available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux from the [Downloads](http://socnetv.org/downloads/) page. | ||
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## What the new version brings to the users? | ||
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As usual with our odd-numbered minor versions, this is a bugfix release. While v2.2 brought a lot of new and important features, v2.3 focuses on stability and fixing bugs here and there. Nevertheless, there are a couple of new features as well, which you may find interesting for your network analysis endeavors: | ||
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### Dyad and Actor/Ego Reciprocity | ||
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Reciprocity, denoted by 'r,' is a network cohesion index. It measures the likelihood of vertices in a directed network to be mutually linked. SocNetV v2.3 supports two different methods to index the degree of reciprocity in a social network: | ||
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- **Arc reciprocity**: The fraction of reciprocated ties over all actual ties in the network. | ||
- **Dyad reciprocity**: The fraction of actor pairs that have reciprocated ties over all pairs of actors that have any connection. | ||
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In a directed network: | ||
- Arc reciprocity measures the proportion of directed edges that are bidirectional. If the reciprocity is 1, the adjacency matrix is structurally symmetric. | ||
- Dyad reciprocity measures the proportion of connected actor dyads that have bidirectional ties between them. | ||
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In an undirected graph, all edges are reciprocal, and the reciprocity of the graph is always 1. | ||
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You can compute reciprocity on undirected, directed, and weighted graphs from the toolbox/menu: `Analyze > Cohesion > Reciprocity`. The report is opened and displayed as usual in HTML format in your preferred web browser. | ||
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### Zero-weighted Edge Support | ||
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In ordinary SNA, zero-weighted edges are thought to be meaningless, but a user pointed out that SocNetV was accepting and drawing zero-valued edges when opening edge list formatted files. This behavior was due to a bug. | ||
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The concept of an edge in SNA (and SocNetV) is that two actors \(i\) and \(j\) are "connected" (and an edge is drawn between them) only if there is a non-zero value at sociomatrix cell \(A(i,j)\). Thus, if \(A(i,j) = 0\), the actors are considered not directly connected, and no edge should be drawn between them. | ||
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This assumption has implications for computations: all centrality and matrix manipulation algorithms of network analysis implicitly compute their results using only non-zero (and some only positive) weighted edges. | ||
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To accommodate users who may need this functionality for visualization purposes, we implemented support for zero-weighted edges in v2.3. This functionality currently works only for weighted edge lists and for simple visualizations. | ||
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### Zero-weighted Edge Color Selection | ||
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With the new feature above, the Settings dialog allows users to select a default edge color for zero-valued edges. Here is a screenshot: | ||
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![SocNetV v2.3 Settings Dialog](http://www.socnetv.org/data/uploads/screenshots/23/socnetv23-dialog.png) |
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