Static and dynamic network visualization with R

This is a comprehensive tutorial on network visualization with R. It covers data input and formats, visualization basics, parameters and layouts for one-mode and bipartite graphs; dealing with multiplex links, interactive and animated visualization for longitudinal networks; and visualizing networks on geographic maps. To follow the tutorial, download the code [...]

Sunbelt network visualization: R and Gephi tutorials

More details to follow, but for now: workshop materials from Sunbelt 2016.   Basic and Advanced Network Visualization with Gephi Sunbelt 2016 workshop materials Network visualization with Gephi: workshop handout (PDF) Network visualization with Gephi: example data files (ZIP)   Basic and Advanced Network Visualization with R Sunbelt 2016 workshop materials [...]

Upcoming network visualization workshops at Sunbelt and POLNET

In the next few months,  I will be running several network visualization workshops using R and Gephi at Sunbelt 2016 (Newport Beach, CA) and Political Networks (St. Louis, MO). The descriptions follow below - if you are going to one of the conferences, do stop by! By popular demand, the workshops [...]

Network analysis with R and igraph: NetSci X Tutorial

Get the tutorial PDF and code, or download on GithHub. A more recent tutorial covering network basics with R and igraph is available here. If you find the materials useful, please cite them in your work – this helps me make the case that open publishing of digital materials like this [...]

The world as seen in political statements

A new Politico post produced by our lab examines the mentions of countries around the globe in congressional documents. We look at the frequency of country mentions and co-occurrence. These numbers were extracted from political statements provided by VoteSmart. Here we post the data we used for those visualizations. The files [...]

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The Congress Tweets You Never Did See

Politicians Descriptive Party States URLs Terms/Tags Sentiment Term net [UPDATE 15/03/30] Check out this follow-up post to get the R code used to extract and clean the Politwoops & Twitter data. A package that automates the data collection is now available on GitHub: PolitwoopsR. For some months now, I've been playing [...]

Facebook data collection and photo network visualization with Gephi and R

Facebook Network: Gephi Facebook Network: igraph Facebook Network: qgraph [Update April 26 2o14] Esteban Moro reminded me that there's no need to manually rescale igraph layouts now - one can use layout.norm() instead (script updated accordingly). Hugle [...]

Intro materials: network analysis software (UCINET, NodeXL, Gephi, Statnet, ERGM, RSiena)

In the fall of 2012, I got to design & lead the weekly labs for a network seminar at USC. I also worked on the methods portion of the syllabus for the class. COMM 645: Communication Networks is a PhD-level course taught by Peter Monge. The labs cover a range of [...]

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