So, we have the data loaded and an initial graph to help provide direction. I know you're eager to move forward and produce something more inspiring, and I can guarantee you will. But first, let's take a very brief look at the underlying data, so we have a greater understanding of what we're doing. After all, it's nice to create a pretty graphic, but it's even better if we can explain what it means.
First, click on the Data Laboratory button at the top of the Gephi workspace. You'll now see a few columns of tabular data, assuming you are in the Nodes tab. There are three columns:
Nodes
Id
Label
Simple, right? The Nodes
column refers to each node or point in the dataset. The Id
column is simply the unique reference to each node, but the Label
values may represent a bit more expressive term. In this case, all three columns are identical—it appears we don't have a very imaginative dataset! It would be nice if the Label
column...