Lesson 9

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

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]