MEDICI: A simple to use synthetic social network data generator

TL;DR

Medici is a user-friendly tool that generates synthetic social network data, aiding researchers and developers in analysis and testing without needing real data, and is accessible via an open-source Java project.

Contribution

It introduces an integrated, easy-to-use system for creating synthetic social network graphs with default settings and detailed user guidance.

Findings

Produces customizable synthetic social network data

Provides statistical outputs for analysis

Accessible as a publicly available Java tool

Abstract

This paper describes an application, called Medici, designed to produce synthetic data for social network graphs, which can be used for analysis, hypothesis testing and application development by researchers and practitioners in the field. It builds on previous work by providing an integrated system, and a user friendly screen interface. It can be run with default values to produce graph data and statistics, which can then be used for further processing. The system is made publicly available in a Github Java project. The annex provides a user manual with a screen by screen guide.