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Mastering Gephi Network Visualization

You're reading from   Mastering Gephi Network Visualization Produce advanced network graphs in Gephi and gain valuable insights into your network datasets

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783987344
Length 378 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Fundamentals of Complex Networks and Gephi FREE CHAPTER 2. A Network Graph Framework 3. Selecting the Layout 4. Network Patterns 5. Working with Filters 6. Graph Statistics 7. Segmenting and Partitioning a Graph 8. Dynamic Networks 9. Taking Your Graph Beyond Gephi 10. Putting It All Together A. Data Sources and Other Web Resources Index

Testing layouts

In my experience, selecting a perfect layout on the first attempt is highly unlikely; even if the best possible algorithm is chosen, it is almost a certainty that the graph display can be improved through adjusting the base settings, not to mention all of the downstream cosmetic enhancements. Knowing this makes it essential to sample multiple layouts for your network data, which can be a very efficient process for all but the largest networks.

In the next few sections, we will walk through the process of testing a few layouts using the same dataset, and will go into greater detail compared to our exercise in Chapter 2, A Network Graph Framework, by modifying settings within each algorithm to demonstrate the resulting impact on the network graph. We'll work with the Les Miserables dataset found in the Gephi samples (available when you open Gephi), as it provides an interesting network to work with, while still being small enough to easily interpret.

Our focus during this...

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