Network Navigator is designed to give you a first glimpse of your network data, with both metrics and visualizations. For more on who we are and how the site works, visit our About and How-To pages.

Type, paste, upload, or drag-and-drop your edge list into the box. Use a CSV file or type your edges separated by commas, as below. Tabs and semicolons work too, and so do spaces (many edge lists online use them), but only when your data has no commas, tabs, or semicolons; names can only contain spaces if the columns are separated by something else, or if the names are in "quotes". Lines starting with % or with # and a space are ignored as comments. (If you include a header row, the site will look for source, target, and weight columns.) Or pick an example to try it out.

Person One,Person Two Person Two,Person Three Person Three,Person One

Your network can be either weighted or unweighted, and either directed or undirected. If your network is weighted, you'll need to add a third column to every line with the weight value:

Person One,Person Two,5

This site will work best with networks of up to 500 nodes and up to 10,000 edges, but networks of 250-500 edges will give the best visualization results. Networks larger than 500 nodes and ~10,000 edges may result in some slowdown of site functions.

n.b.: Choose Bipartite under "Network type" if your network has two kinds of nodes (for example, authors and the books they wrote), with your first column holding one kind and your second column the other. Network Navigator then uses metrics suited to two-mode networks, and lets you project the network onto either set. For an ordinary network of one kind of node, leave it on "One-mode": its metrics aren't reliable for bipartite data.

This website does not collect or store any data. Your data remains on your computer alone and is not sent to an external server. No one can view your data or results but you.

If you have comments or suggestions, or if anything's not working the way it should, feel free to reach out to John on Bluesky.