SNA also provides a flexible measurement system and parameter selection to confirm the influential nodes in the network, such as in-degree and out-degree centrality.
Currently-implemented data providers for NodeXL include YouTube, Twitter, Wikipedia (the MediaWiki understructure), web hyperlinks, Microsoft Exchange Server.
[10] NodeXL integrates into Microsoft Excel 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 and 365 and opens as a workbook with a variety of worksheets containing the elements of a graph structure such as edges and nodes.
NodeXL Pro implements a variety of community detection algorithms to allow the user to automatically discover clusters in their social networks.
NodeXL allows the user to multi-select, drag and drop nodes on the canvas and to manually edit their visual properties (size, color, and opacity).
Using the YouTube API, NodeXL enables researchers to solicit videos and viewers' comments with titles, keywords, descriptions and users’ IDs.
[11] NodeXL has been used by news outlets such as Foreign Policy to visualize the structure of conversations about political topics as well as by organizations like the World Bank to analyze voting data.