Blue Spider™ is unique in its approach to Social Network Analysis. Each piece of functionality is encapsulated as a visual element. The user drags and drops elements onto a workspace and connects them together creating an analytical workflow. Workflows provide the ability to repeat the same analytical steps. Workflows can be shared among analysts ensuring that the same steps are performed for each methodology.
Elements are the building blocks of workflows and include the following:
Graph algorithms (centrality, k-cores, clustering, etc)
Matrix mathematics
Statistics
Data manipulation (change data format, clean text, disambiguate, search, etc)
Read/write files (multiple formats)
Database queries
Network visualization
Data visualization (charts, grid views)
