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Gephi Cookbook

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Gephi Cookbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Gephi Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Configuring node sizes in a graph by ranking nodes


In the previous recipe, we learned how to configure node colors by ranking the graph based on a continuous attribute. In this recipe, we will learn how to configure node sizes by ranking the graph under consideration based on a continuous attribute.

How to do it…

The following steps illustrate the process of altering node sizes by ranking a graph based on a continuous node attribute:

  1. Click on the Nodes tab in the Ranking panel.

  2. Click on the red diamond-shaped icon in the upper-right corner of the Ranking panel.

  3. From the drop-down, choose a rank parameter such as Degree:

  4. Click on the diamond-shaped icon located in the upper-right corner of the Ranking panel.

  5. Enter the minimum and maximum allowed node size in the Min Size and Max Size input boxes, respectively.

  6. Move the Range slider to configure which nodes have to be resized and which nodes are to retain their original size.

  7. Click on Spline to select the distribution of the size gradient in this process...