Category Archives: Graph Data Model

Gephi is like Photoshop for Networks

At least, that’s how the sales pitch goes. I don’t use Photoshop much, so I have no idea if it has the same kind of beautiful data transformation features as Gephi.  One of the newest layouts is a simple radial … Continue reading

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Event Modeling – A Position

I’m getting ready for the Digital Humanities 2011 conference here at Stanford this month and the panel I’m on, Modeling Event-Based Historical Narratives, has decided to build short position papers in preparation for our presentation. I plan to present the … Continue reading

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Twitter Networks

ArXiv (which I only recently discovered while having lunch with the Culturomics folks was pronounced “archive”) has an en excellent study of Twitter using network analysis to reveal that earlier claims for a limit to the number of members of … Continue reading

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Another Gephi Workshop

I’ll be hosting a second Gephi Workshop at Noisebridge in San Francisco on May 18th at 6:30PM.  Space is limited–you can find more details here.

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The TED Talk Fetish

On Wednesday I gave a two-hour workshop on using Gephi.  I had hoped to get into the more exotic aspects of the software, including dynamic networks and using sub-filters, but I barely had enough time to demonstrate how to set … Continue reading

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Maps, Graphs and Workshops

In preparation for tomorrow’s Introduction to Gephi Workshop, I’ve put up a PDF of the short presentation up.  The full workshop will focus on hands-on use of Gephi with examples of spigots and filters and analytics and all the rest … Continue reading

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The Digital Humanities as Topic Network

With the help of MALLET and Gephi, I walked through the process of creating topic networks and dealt a bit with their possible uses.  For my corpus, I focused on papers, chapters, blog posts and collaborative works that grapple with … Continue reading

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Vizblog Article on Mapping Digital Humanities Collaboration

My article at Viz., “Mapping and Problematizing Digital Humanities Collaboration” is up.  My favorite visual from the article sums up the “problematizing” part:

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Topic Networks

I’m in the middle of a rather large analysis of topic networks created using topic modeling and visualized in Gephi, of course, and simply can’t resist posting a few samples, because they’re absolutely stunning.

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Visualizing Databases

I’ve become quite the fan of Gephi, lately, and received a good-natured challenge by one of my colleagues, which went something like, “Why is a everything a network with you, now?”  Obviously, in the case of social network-like phenomena, such … Continue reading

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