An Introduction to Network Visualisation for Analysis

Install

If you would like to play along – and please do – in advance of lecture please visit gephi.org and install the software on your own laptop.

Note: The current stable version of Gephi will only run with Java 7 or 8. On Mac OS X, Java is bundled with the application so it doesn’t have to be installed separately. On Windows and Linux, the system must be equipped with Java.

Installation instructions are available on the download page: https://gephi.org/users/install/

Test your Gephi Install by launching Gephi and choosing to open ‘Les Miserables.gexf’ from the screen presented.

The slides from this presentation can be dowloaded at: Intro to Scholarly Network Analysis and Visualisation

The tutorial uses this raw network file (download it to your desktop or any place you can remember to open it from – save the file, do not click this link to simply open it: Les Miserables Raw File for Tutorial

A Step-by-Step Introductory Gephi Tutorial

Examples

Mapping Shakespeare’s Tragedies – (The Large Image) – Martin Grandjean
Exploring Dáil Data – Dave Kelly
Industrial Memories – Communications – Derek Greene
Industrial Memories – Transfer Map – Derek Greene
The Star Wars Social Network – Evelina Gabasova
Panama Papers – ICIJ
Kindred Britain – Stanford
Visualisation of Visualisations – Santiago Ortiz
Personal Knowledge Database – Santiago Ortiz

Resources

Social Network Analysis – John Scott
Demystifying Networks – Scott Weingart
Formal network methods in history: why and how? – Claire Lemercier
From Hermeneutics to Data to Networks: Data Extraction and Network Visualization of Historical Sources – Marten Düring
More Networks in the Humanities or Did books have DNA? – Elijah Meeks
An Introduction to Social Network Methods – Robert A. Hanneman and Mark Riddle
Practical Social Network Analysis Using Gephi – Derek Greene
Networks, Crowds and Markets – Easley and Kleinberg
Mastering Gephi Network Visualisation – Ken Chevron
GEPHI – Introduction to Network Analysis and Visualisation – Martin Grandjean
How to explore a network graph of electronic literature in Gephi – Jill Walker Rettberg
Some Fun Datasets to Play with – Gephi GITHub

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