In previous chapters, we've examined a variety of techniques and functionalities present within Gephi that act on the existing network data. These included topics such as filtering, partitioning, running statistics, styling, and ultimately exporting our projects. As I mentioned in the introduction, much of this has necessarily been done in isolation, with periodic instances where multiple approaches were merged. In this section, we are going to utilize a considerable portion of the Gephi application to understand and potentially improve on some of the existing network graphs.

The hope is that performing many of these operations on existing graphs will prepare us to create better projects when we begin with our own raw data. Think of this as a bit of a warm-up exercise before we tackle the more challenging goal of building our own projects.

So let's begin by exploring a single challenging graph, and begin flexing our creative muscles using a variety...