4. Importing data into visualization software

4.1. Importing and Visualizing in to Netdraw.

Here we very briefly explore how you would import the *.vna file format into Netdraw and display your ONA map. We strongly recommend that you download our Basic Guide to Netdraw which provides a step-by-step jargon free introduction to Netdraw. The guide is based on our demo file which is freely available.

• Open Netdraw and load the file (click on 'File', select *.vna fileformat, then browse to locate file).
  
  
• Now click on the lightening bolt to generate the map.
  
  
  
  
• The file is exported such that by default each 'node' (the circle representing an individual) is given a number.
  
  
• If you want to display names you can change the node label in Netdraw by clicking on Properties / Nodes / Labels / Text.