Hardware requirements: 500 MHz CPU + 128 MB RAM + OpenGL 1.2Įnhance your social media management with Hootsuite, the leading social media dashboard. Gephi is open-source and free.Įxploratory Data Analysis, Link Analysis and Biological Network analysis Gephi is the leading visualization and exploration software for all kinds of graphs and networks. All of the tools are confirmed available and operational. Some are simple data collectors such as tweepy, a Python library for collecting tweets and others are a bit more robust such as Netlytic, a multi-platform (Twitter, YouTube, RSS Feed, or text/csv file) data collector and analyzer, developed by our lab. Many tools are free to use and require little or no programming. The kit features tools that have been used in peer-reviewed academic studies. The Social Media Research Toolkit is a list of 50+ social media research tools curated by researchers at the Social Media Lab at Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University.