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Network Graph Analysis and Visualization with Gephi

By : Ken Cherven
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Network Graph Analysis and Visualization with Gephi

By: Ken Cherven

Overview of this book

<p>Gephi is an interactive visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of networks and complex systems. Social media data has helped to drive network visualization to new levels of relevance and importance. However, there is far more to network visualization than just social media data. For analyzing and visualizing network graphs, you need to have an excellent platform, and you need to know ways to use your data effectively.</p> <p>Network Graph Analysis and Visualization with Gephi is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with all the tools you need to begin creating your own network graphs. You will learn how to import data, test multiple graph layouts, and publish your visualizations to the Web.</p> <p>Network Graph Analysis and Visualization with Gephi will teach you how to create your own network graphs using Gephi. The book begins by taking you through the installation of Gephi and configuring the installation options. You will also get acquainted with the Gephi workspace and the various tools in Gephi. Next, you’ll use these tools to create your own graphs. If you need to add more capability to your personal toolkit, you will be learning to Download and install several of the best Gephi layout plugins. You will then use these layouts simultaneously to produce beautiful graphs. Also, you create and import data in Gephi and add some new plugins that extend Gephi even further. You also gain the skills to prepare and customize your network visualization for export.</p> <p>By the end of this book, you will be able to create your own network graphs using Gephi, customize the look and feel of your graphs, and successfully publish them to the Web.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

About the Author

Ken Cherven is a marketing analyst working in the automotive sector in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He has more than 15 years' experience working with proprietary tools from Microsoft, Cognos, Tableau, and Oracle, in addition to extensive experience using a variety of open source software applications including MySQL, SpagoBI, JasperServer, BIRT, Mondrian, R, Gephi, Exhibit, Omeka, and d3.

Ken also maintains the visual-baseball.com site, where he uses available open source and proprietary tools to analyze, report on, and visualize baseball information. The site features many of his baseball visualization projects, including a collection of more than 100 seasons of interactive pennant race charts.

One of Ken's current projects is to publish a visual history of major league baseball pennant races from 1901 through 2012, using a dashboard approach featuring horizon charts, box plots, bullet charts, and other visuals to tell the story of each and every race in a highly visual fashion. This book is scheduled for a 2013 release.