Re:Data Science of the Facebook World
by austinl on Wednesday April 24, 2013 @05:55PM
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I've been doing Facebook network visualization for a while now with Gephi. Here are some of the graphs I came up with:
http://visualizingpolitics.wordpress.com/2012/05/02/facebook...
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Nice! Do you know if Gephi can do something similar to the summarization that we did using cluster diagrams? The whole "ball of hair" problem doesn't have any other real solution, I don't think (well, unless you use edge clustering, but that doesn't help in-group connections).
I'm 90% certain that it can, but I haven't worked with it in a while. I remember a setting in the display options that simply combined all the dots of one color into one large group.
Cool! I wonder how one could combine the best of both worlds... what we're really talking about here is a hierarchy of graph plots in which you can drill down to each node = graph at a lower level.