Lesson11

ISSS608 Visual Analytics and Applications

About

Weekly Session

Assignment

Visual Analytics Project

Course Resources

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

Readings

• Visual Analysis of Complex Networks for Business Intelligence with Gephi [1]
• Graph Drawing [2]
• Graph Analytics - Lesson Learned and Challenges Ahead [3]
• Learning to Read and Interpret Network Graph Data Visualizations [4]
• The Visualization of Networks [5]
• ViZster: Visualizing Online Social Networks [6]
• Adam Perer. "Finding Beautiful Insights in the Chaos of Social Network Visualizations". In Beautiful Visualization. O’Reilly Press. [7]
• Visual Complexity [8]

All About R

Wrangling Network Data

• Introducing 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