For your information:

I want to introduce you to NetMiner (http://www.netminer.com), recently released by our company.
If I understood your situation and needs correctly, you can do what you want very easily with NetMiner.

Your situation:
- you have a matrix data
- each cell of it describes the strength of relationship
- the value of strength is not binary but a real number

What your want:
- to draw/plot the network data showing relative closeness of nodes(categories),
- that is, to position a pair of nodes with larger value of strength closer to each other,
- and optionally display thickness of lines according to the value of strength

What you have to do in NetMiner:
- input the matrix data
- go to the "Analyze|Connection|Path" menu
- select option "treat weight as capacity"
That's it.

For further information, e-mail to me.

Ghi-Hoon Ghim

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 Ghim, Ghi-Hoon               mailto:[log in to unmask]
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Social Network Researchers [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of Clive Baldwin
> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 9:18 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Help needed
>
>
> Does anyone know of a very easy introduction to using UCINET?
> Alternatively, are there other packages that can be used to draw
> networks from data entered into a matrix?
>
> What I want to do is to plot the strength of relationships between
> categories and be able to have a network drawn showing the relative
> closeness of categories.  Hence the matrix will not be a binary matrix
> but will use real numbers to express the strength (closeness) of two
> categories.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> Clive Baldwin
>