Lesson 10

IS428 Visual Analytics for Business Intelligence

About

Weekly Session

Assignments

Visual Analytics Project

Course Resources

Network Visualisation and Analysis: Knowledge Discovery in Linked Data

Content

Data Visualisation Through Their Graph Representation

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

Network Graph Drawing

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

Network Graph Layout Techniques

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

Applications of Network Visualisation

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

Network Graph Visualisation and Analysis Tool in R

Network graph data wrangling

• Tidygraph
• Introducing tidygraph
• tidygraph 1.1 – A tidy hope
• Tidying up your network analysis with tidygraph and ggraph

Network graph analysis and visualisation packages in R

• igraph
• network
• sna

Network graph visualisation packages in R

• ggraph: An Implementation of Grammar of Graphics for Graphs and Networks
  • Edges
  • Layouts
  • Nodes

• ggnet2 of GGarray
• geomnet: Network Visualization in the 'ggplot2' Framework
  • The geomnet package
• ggnetwork: Geometries to Plot Networks with 'ggplot2'
  • ggnetwork: Network geometries for ggplot2

High Recommended

• Another Game of Thrones network analysis
• ggmap and ggraph
• Visual Analytics Projects
  • Discovering traffic patterns by using network graph visualisations
  • shinyNET: A web-based flight data visualisation toolkit using R Shiny and ggraph
  • VRshiny: An Application for better business decision making - Visualizing Association Rules with Network Diagram in Shiny
  • Linking the globe: An Interactive Dashboard for Exploring Aviation Expansion Along the "Belt and Road"

Interactive network graph visualisation packages in R

• visNetwork: Network Visualization using 'vis.js' Library
  • Introduction to visNetwork
  • visNetwork, an R package for interactive network visualization
  • Network visualization of football transfers using the 'visNetwork' package
  • Interactive Network Visualization with R
  • Network Visualisation with visNetwork
  • Using R to Detect Communities of Correlated Topics
  • Network analysis of the Hungarian interbank lending market
  • Netpredictor: R and Shiny package to perform Drug-Target Bipartite network analysis and prediction of missing links
  • For more example, refer to Images for visNetwork in R

• networkD3: D3 JavaScript Network Graphs from R
  • networkD3

Network Graph Visualisation and Analysis Tool

Gephi

• Webpage [4]

• Download [5]

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

• Forum [9]

Readings

• Visual Analysis of Complex Networks for Business Intelligence with Gephi [10]
• Graph Drawing [11]
• Graph Analytics - Lesson Learned and Challenges Ahead [12]
• Learning to Read and Interpret Network Graph Data Visualizations [13]
• The Visualization of Networks [14]
• ViZster: Visualizing Online Social Networks [15]
• Adam Perer. "Finding Beautiful Insights in the Chaos of Social Network Visualizations". In Beautiful Visualization. O’Reilly Press. [16]
• Visual Complexity [17]