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Example maps
30 maps · 642 people · 1102 relationships
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- Zachary's Karate Club
The most famous small network in science. 34 club members, 78 friendships, and a fight that split the club in two.
Real· sourced34 people · 78 ties - The Florentine families
How the Medici took Florence by marrying well. John Padgett's classic map of 15 families and 20 marriages.
Historical· sourced15 people · 20 ties - Krackhardt's kite
Ten people and one question: who is the most central? David Krackhardt's textbook network has three different answers.
Fictional10 people · 18 ties - The Godfather
The Corleones and the Five Families, from the 1945 wedding to the boat on the lake. Scrub the timeline and watch Michael end up alone.
Fictional23 people · 44 ties - OpenAI and the split
The 2015 founders, the walkout that became Anthropic, and the five days in 2023 when the board fired its CEO and took him back.
Real· sourced26 people · 39 ties - Breaking Bad
Every relationship in the show, colour-coded by kind. Play the tour, or scrub the timeline from 2008 to 2013 and watch the network thin out.
Fictional18 people · 29 ties - Succession: the Roy family
Who gets Waystar RoyCo? Four children, three marriages, and a father who kept moving the finish line.
Fictional21 people · 37 ties - Kurtlar Vadisi
Fifty people across the series, Pusu and the films. Scrub from 2003 to 2017 and watch three generations of enemies replace each other.
Fictional50 people · 97 ties - Y Combinator
Four people started an accelerator in 2005. Twenty years on, a third of its partners are founders it funded.
Real· sourced41 people · 59 ties - The Sopranos
Tony's two families, at home and at the Bada Bing, and how he never kept them apart. Scrub from 1999 to 2007 and count who is left.
Fictional23 people · 43 ties - The House of Windsor
The British royal line from George VI to the present, and the marriages that kept redrawing it.
Real· sourced18 people · 26 ties - The PayPal Mafia
One payments company in 1999, and the companies its founders and early employees went on to start.
Real· sourced14 people · 24 ties - Peaky Blinders
The Shelbys of Birmingham, from a betting shop to Parliament. Scrub from 1919 to 1934: the enemies change, the family does not.
Fictional20 people · 31 ties - The Wire
Baltimore over five seasons: the corner, the docks, the school and City Hall. Scrub from 2002 to 2008 and watch Marlo replace Barksdale while the police stay the same.
Fictional31 people · 56 ties - Money Heist
A crew named after cities, and a plan that needed nobody to get close. Almost every line here is one the Professor told them not to draw.
Fictional19 people · 32 ties - The Kushners
A New Jersey property family, a conviction, a marriage into a presidency, and the Gulf money that followed.
Real· sourced34 people · 57 ties - The Murdochs
Five marriages, six children, and a trust that took a Nevada courtroom to settle. The real version of a story television has already told twice.
Real· sourced21 people · 38 ties - The Kennedys
Three generations of an American political family, the offices they held, and how many died young. Scrub from 1930 to 2000.
Historical· sourced17 people · 29 ties - Who owns the Premier League
American families, Gulf funds and private equity, and the deals that link them. Here the lines are money, not blood.
Real· sourced30 people · 32 ties - The Habsburgs
Four centuries of marrying Europe rather than fighting it, and the cousin marriages that ended the Spanish line. Scrub the timeline from 1450 to 1720.
Historical· sourced15 people · 27 ties - Süleyman's court
The family and the viziers around Süleyman the Magnificent, and how the succession was settled by execution. Scrub the timeline from 1520 to 1580.
Historical· sourced15 people · 28 ties - The Arnault succession
Bernard Arnault put all five of his children inside LVMH and has not said which one gets it.
Real· sourced13 people · 23 ties - The Agnelli family
Fiat, Ferrari and Juventus, held by one Turin family for four generations, and a succession that skipped a generation entirely.
Real· sourced12 people · 20 ties - The Koç family
Four generations of Türkiye's largest industrial dynasty, and how the chairmanship of Koç Holding passed down it.
Real· sourced13 people · 17 ties - The Sabancı family
From a cotton mill in Adana to a holding company, and the granddaughter who ended up running it.
Real· sourced11 people · 16 ties - Game of Thrones
The Starks, the Lannisters, the Targaryens and the people in between: every marriage, oath and betrayal that decides the war, across all eight seasons.
Fictional26 people · 45 ties - Harry Potter
Harry, his friends, two generations of the Order and the Death Eaters: the ties behind all seven books, from the Marauders to the Battle of Hogwarts.
Fictional21 people · 40 ties - The Office (US)
Dunder Mifflin Scranton as a network: who reports to Michael, who dates whom, and who cannot stand whom, across all nine seasons.
Fictional17 people · 24 ties - A classroom sociogram
An example sociogram of a made-up class of sixteen: each arrow is one pupil choosing a classmate to work with. Find the stars, the cliques, the bridge and the unreturned choices.
Fictional16 people · 48 ties - A stakeholder map
An example stakeholder map for a made-up decision: a town council weighing a private redevelopment of its library. Who decides, who is allied, who opposes, and what is only rumoured.
Fictional18 people · 25 ties
How it works
Four steps, about five minutes
- 01
Start a map
One click. You get a private edit link. Keep it: it is the only key.
- 02
Add people
Double-click the canvas to add someone. Add a photo or dates if you like.
- 03
Connect them
Drag from one card to another. Name the tie and pick its kind.
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Share it
Send the view link. Only people with the link can see it.
Guides
Reading a network, and what people map
Questions
- What is a netgraf?
- A netgraf is a diagram of the ties inside a group. Each person is a dot, each tie is a line, and the shape shows who is central, who is on the edge, and where the group splits. Sociologists call the classroom version a sociogram; the same picture works for families, companies and casts.
- Is Netgraf a free sociogram maker?
- Yes. Netgraf is free, needs no account, and draws a sociogram in the browser: add each person, connect the ones who chose or know each other, and the map shows stars, isolates and cliques. It also measures who is central, so a teacher or researcher gets the numbers along with the picture.
- How do I make a relationship map?
- Start a map, double-click the canvas to add a person, and drag from one person to another to connect them. Name each tie and pick its kind: family, business, social, conflict or other. You can also import a spreadsheet, have AI draft one from a description or add to one you started, or copy an example.
- What can I use it for?
- Anything with people and ties between them: a classroom, a team, a family, the owners behind a set of companies, a journalist's investigation, stakeholders on a project, or the cast of a show. Each map states whether it is about real, historical or fictional people, so readers know what it claims.
- Is it private?
- Yes. Every map is unlisted: only people you send the link to can see it, and it is kept out of search engines. The edit link is a secret key, so keep it safe. A map only appears in the public gallery if you choose to publish it there, and it still stays out of search.
- Can I import a spreadsheet or export my map?
- Yes. Netgraf imports CSV and TSV edge lists, pasted spreadsheets, GraphML and GEXF, and reads the file in your browser. It exports GraphML for Gephi, yEd or Cytoscape, two CSVs of people and relationships with their network measures, its own JSON, and a PNG image of the map.
- Can I embed a map on my website?
- Yes. Open Share on any map and copy the embed code into your page, blog or newsroom CMS. Readers can pan, zoom, play the tour and open the insights right there, and the embed stays in step with your edits. It works like a YouTube embed, with no account needed.
- Can a map show time and sources?
- Yes. Add dates to people and relationships and the map gets a timeline you can drag or play, so the network assembles and thins out over the years. Each relationship can carry a source link and a confidence level of confirmed, reported or rumored, drawn as the style of the line.
- Can I see how two people are connected?
- Yes. Open a map, click a person, and pick anyone else under Connection to. Netgraf finds the shortest chain of relationships between them, lights it up on the map, and lists each step, such as hired, then married to. If nothing joins the two, it says so.
- How is Netgraf different from Kumu or Gephi?
- Netgraf is for drawing and sharing a map in minutes, with no account and no public indexing of your work. Kumu is a hosted tool whose free projects are public. Gephi is free desktop software for analysing large networks. Netgraf sits between them: a quick editor with built-in centrality and community analysis.