Networks help you visualize relationships between people and items. For example, a simple network can show you how people are related to each other. This is illustrated for you in the following diagram:
In this network, it is easy to see that Mary and Jon are friends, while Mary and Tim are coworkers. We can also see that Tim and Jon have no relationship at all. Such networks have powerful applications, especially in the field of social networks!
In this section, we are going to learn how to construct an interactive network using Bokeh. On a fundamental level, there are two ways to do this. The first is to construct and visualize these networks using the default straight lines to connect two nodes together, and the next is to construct and visualize these networks by defining a shape for the path that we choose.