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NetworkX is very powerful, however for more hands-on network graph diagrams (perhaps more art than science) I rely heavily on http://gephi.org http://gephi.org.
by flashman 10y ago
NetworkX is very powerful, however for more hands-on network graph diagrams (perhaps more art than science) I rely heavily on http://gephi.org http://gephi.org.
(Here's my Gephi map of NSFW subreddits according to their links to each other: http://electronsoup.net/nsfw_subreddits/ http://electronsoup.net/nsfw_subreddits/)
- danso 10y agoNice! Have definitely heard of Gephi but haven't made an effort to use it, out of reluctance to learn a new GUI/system and how I rarely ever try to solve problems that require graph analysis. For that subreddit visualization, how much data prep/wrangling did you do (after making the API requests of course) before you worked with the data in Gephi?
- flashman 10y agoNot too bad. I just had to get it in the format of one line per source-target pair. The data came from /u/uglyasblasphemy in SQL format though apparently he's removed the link. Most of the fun was in arranging nodes with the move tool. With the layout I used (Fruchterman-Reingold) the nodes form a circle and you can pick up clusters and move them where you want them. Useful to make things more meaningful to the eye, if probably less mathematically correct.