Lesswon 8: NetVA: Network Data Visualisation and Analysis

Content

• Introduction to Graph Data Visualisation
  • Basic principles of network graph
  • Graph data visualisation in actions
• Network Graph Data
  • Network data sets
  • Graph data format
  • Graph Database
• Network Graph Visualisation Tools
• Designer toolkit
  • Gephi
• Programmer toolkit
  • R packages
• Graph layouts
  • Node-and-link layouts
  • Force-directed layout
  • Node-only layout
  • Adjacency matrix
• Visual Attributes
  • Key node attributes
  • Key edge attributes
  • Bundles, shapes, images, and more
• Visual Analysis of Network Graphs
  • Relationships
  • Hierarchies
  • Communities
• Flows
• Spatial networks

Lesson Slides and Hands-on Notes

• Lesson slides in html and pdf formats

• Handout of Hands-on Exercise 8 in html and pdf formats.

Readings

• Visual Analysis of Complex Networks for Business Intelligence with Gephi
• Graph Drawing
• Graph Analytics - Lesson Learned and Challenges Ahead
• Learning to Read and Interpret Network Graph Data Visualizations
• The Visualization of Networks
• ViZster: Visualizing Online Social Networks
• Adam Perer. “Finding Beautiful Insights in the Chaos of Social Network Visualizations”. In ’‘’Beautiful Visualization’’’. O’Reilly Press.
• Visual Complexity

All About R

Wrangling Network Data

• tidygraph
• tidygraph 1.1 – A tidy hope
• tidygraph

Visualisation and Analysis

ggraph

• ggraph
• Announcing ggraph
• 1 giraffe, 2 giraffe, GO!
• Layouts
• Nodes
• Edges
• tidygraph and ggraph

vizNetwork

• visNetwork: Network Visualization using ‘vis.js’ Library
• Introduction to visNetwork
• visNetwork, an R package for interactive network visualization

Circular Plot

• circlize: circular visualization in R
• Circular Visualization in R