Lesson08

IS428 Visual Analytics for Business Intelligence

About

Weekly Session

Assignments

Visual Analytics Project

Course Resources

Graph Visualisation and Analysing: Methods and Applications

Lesson 8 slides

Content

Data Visualisation Through Their Graph Representation

• Basic concept of graph
• Data and graph
• Where to find the data?

Graph Drawing

• Hierarchical tress
• Spanning trees
• Networks
• Directed graphs
• Treemaps

Graph Layout Techniques

• Force-directed techniques
• Multidimensional scaling
• The pulling under constrains model
• Bipartite graphs

Applications of Graph Visualisation

• Organisation network
• Business network [1]
• Political network [2]
• Social network [3]
• News network

Graph Visualisation and Analysis Tool

Gephi

• Webpage [4]

• Download [5]

• Tutorial: Quick Start [6], Visualization [7], and Layouts [8]

• Forum [9]

Daily Readings

Day	Time required	Readings	Comments
1	60 mins	Graph Drawing [10] "Graph Visualization and Navigation in Information Visualization: A Survey", [11]	NA
2	60 mins	Graph Analytics - Lesson Learned and Challenges Ahead [12] The Visualization of Networks [13] TreePlus: Tree-based Graph Visualization[14]	NA
3	60 mins	Biodiversity Informatics Visualization [15] ViZster: Visualizing Online Social Networks [16]	NA
4	60 mins	Using Visualization to Understand Social Networks [17] 10 Amazing Visualizations of Social Networks [18] Adam Perer. "Finding Beautiful Insights in the Chaos of Social Network Visualizations". In Beautiful Visualization. O’Reilly Press. [19] Visual Complexity [20]	NA
5	3 hours	Lecture and hands-on exercise.	NA

Discussion

Discussion Lesson 8