VOSONDash
VOSONDash is an interactive R Shiny web application for the visualisation and analysis of social network data. The app has a dashboard layout with sections for visualising and manipulating network graphs, performing text analysis, displaying network metrics and the collection of network data using the vosonSML R package.
Installation
Installation simply requires downloading the VOSONDash files and unzipping them to a folder. The app is opened in RStudio by either creating a new project using the VOSONDash directory or navigating to the folder using the RStudio File browser tab.
The latest VOSONDash can be downloaded from the VOSON lab on github using the following link:
https://github.com/vosonlab/VOSONDash/releases/download/v0.3.8/VOSONDash-0.3.8.zip
Getting started
The app can be run by typing runApp() in the RStudio Console (optionally with a path appDir = '~/my/voson/dash/folder/path/') or alternatively by clicking on the Run App button that appears in the top right of the RStudio file viewer frame when either the ui.R or server.R files are open.
VOSONDash app interface
VOSONDash features an intuitive web interface with a section for analysis of graph data in graphml format and a section for collecting social media data with vosonSML.
Special thanks
This application would not be possible without key packages by other authors in the R community, particularly the shiny, shinydashboard, DT and shinyjs packages. Graph visualisations created with igraph, networkD3 and visNetwork, and text analysis with support from tm, SnowballC and wordcloud packages.