Week 16 - Network Visualization & Word clouds

Downloads

Data:

• Several small nodes facebook data
• One major node facebook data
• More facebook data
• Text of Othello (othello.txt)

Optional reading list

1. VAD Ch. 9: Arrange Networks and Trees
2. VAD, Ch. 13.4.3.1: Reduce Items and Attributes
3. VAD, Ch. 6: Rules of Thumb
4. FDV, Ch. 28: Choosing the right visualization software
5. FDV, Ch. 26: Don’t go 3D
6. FDV, Ch. 25: Avoid line drawings

Extra Resources

• Variety of SNAP datasets
• We used this SNAP dataset
• Python Library to parse snap facebook data

Materials

• Lecture 16: (view, source, present)
• Notebook: inClass_week16_theLast: (view, download)
• Notebook: inClass_week16_theLast_networks: (view, download)
• Notebook: prep_notebook_networks_part2: (view, download)
• Notebook: prep_notebook_wordcloud_part1: (view, download)

Materials from Previous Courses

• Notebook: spring2019_prep_notebook: (view, download)