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Is the name a reference to the democracy game from Scientific American back in the 80ies (or so)? Also, is there a good equivalent for node-edge graphs?
by larsrc 4y ago
Is the name a reference to the democracy game from Scientific American back in the 80ies (or so)?
Also, is there a good equivalent for node-edge graphs?
- VHRanger 4y agoIdeally, you'd embed the graph into 2 or 3d first, then visualize it as a scatterplot. Visualizing the edges at scale doesnt yield nice results in general. It's simply too noisy. The way to do it is to reduce the graph to some 300d or 500d embeddings, then use TSNE/UMAP/PACMAP to reduce that to 3d. Then visualize. My prefered way is to use some first order embedding method like GGVec in this library [1] (disclaimer I wrote it). Node2Vec and ProNE don't yield great embeddings for visualization (the first is too filamented, the second too close to the unit ball). Another great library to do this work is GRAPE [2]. Try first-order embedding methods, or short walks on second order methods to avoid the embeddings being too filamented by long random walk sampling. [1] https://github.com/VHRanger/nodevectors https://github.com/VHRanger/nodevectors [2] https://github.com/AnacletoLAB/grape/ https://github.com/AnacletoLAB/grape/
- larsrc 4y agoThanks!
- lordwarnut 4y agoI don't suppose you have a link to that game? It sounds interesting and I'd love to learn more.
- larsrc 4y agohttps://wiki.c2.com/?NomicGame https://wiki.c2.com/?NomicGame has a bunch of information around it, but the original article is behind a paywall (https://www.jstor.org/stable/24966607 https://www.jstor.org/stable/24966607).