Category Archives: Tools

Walking through networks with GexfWalker

Posted on October 27, 2010 by Elijah Meeks

Thanks to Alexis Jacomy’s La Carte du Tendre du Web, you can easily embed a traversable version of your network on any website, inside any blog post or wherever you’d like. GexfWalker, as the software is known, operates off of … Continue reading →

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Humanities Networks in Gephi, pt. III

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Elijah Meeks

A few last easy visualizations, before I move on to different datasets and methodologies. First, as close to an informative visualization of Voltaire and his correspondents as I can produce: And a few of the more interesting drafts of Benjamin … Continue reading →

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More Voltaire Graph Visualization

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Elijah Meeks

The interesting problem when dealing with such a large dataset with little depth (the data as it is collated in these examples is focused on number of connections rather than quality, as individual letters are held as connecting two people … Continue reading →

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Graph Visualization of Voltaire’s Network

Posted on September 26, 2010 by Elijah Meeks

Gephi continues to impress me with its ability to arrange and represent large amounts of graph data.  Voltaire, with his nearly 20,000 letters sent and received, is in red.  His most numerous correspondents are in blue and the various locations … Continue reading →

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Humanities Graphs Using Gephi

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Elijah Meeks

The network visualization tool Gephi, which recently received recognition from Oracle as an exemplary Java project, provides an enormously powerful toolbox for visualizing and analyzing network data such as the kind found in the new Mapping the Republic of Letters … Continue reading →

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Visual Programming

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Elijah Meeks

Inkscape released a new version of it’s excellent SVG editor on August 23rd and it continues, in my mind, to be the most intuitive and useful visualization tool available.  It’s invariably the fist thing I use when approaching a new … Continue reading →

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