The Social Network Importer for NodeXL is a new graph data provider for NodeXL which enables each user to directly download and import their Facebook networks into NodeXL. With this release, you can now download your own Facebook ego-network for analysis and visualization in NodeXL and other network analysis tools that can import GraphML. Future releases will extract networks from Fan Pages and Groups.
The code is open and free and can be found on the CodePlex site here: http://socialnetimporter.codeplex.com/
The new Social Network Importer for NodeXL provides a new data import menu option that can be configured with this dialog box:
Social Network Importer for NodeXL v.1.1
Using the SocialNetImporter data provider can provide data that can be represented as a network visualization:
How to install the Social Network Importer for NodeXL: Continue reading