EgoNet
| Company type | Open-source software |
|---|---|
| Industry | Social network analysis software |
| Founder | Christopher McCarty |
| Headquarters | United States |
| Products | Egocentric social network data collection and analysis software |
EgoNet (Egocentric Network Study Software) is an application developed to collect and analyze egocentric social network information. It allows users to extract all egocentric network data from a website and offers global network metrics along with data matrices for use in additional analytical software. The software specializes in identifying connections related to particular Internet addresses and displaying this data through an accessible interface.
Written in Java, EgoNet operates with the necessity of the JRE. It is distributed as open-source under the terms of the GPL.
Christopher McCarty, a faculty member at the University of Florida, United States, developed EgoNet.
Features
EgoNet supports questionnaire design, data gathering, and provides detailed metrics and data matrices for further processing by external applications. Its primary capabilities include producing relational data surveys, computing essential overall social network analysis statistics, and generating visual network representations.
Components
The software is composed of two primary parts:
- EgoNetW: responsible for designing survey templates for research purposes;
- EgoNetClientW: responsible for importing data according to specified questions and survey formats.