Network Analysis:
A dynamic way to visualize the relationships (“edges”) between things (“nodes”). “Nodes can be anything, from people, places, and books to concepts or words, and they can have attributes like gender or year of publication that you could encode via color, size, or another visual channel to discover patterns” (Yale DH Lab).
Martin Grandjean explains social network analysis in this way: “A network is made of two components : a list of the actors composing the network, and a list of the relations (the interactions between actors). As part of a mathematical object, actors will then be called vertices (nodes, in Gephi), and relations will be denoted as tiles (edges, in Gephi).”
Tools for Network Analysis
Gephi
“Gephi is the leading visualization and exploration software for all kinds of graphs and networks. Gephi is open-source and free.”
Palladio, from Stanford’s Humanities + Design Research Lab.
A tool for visualizing data. “In the Map view, you can see any coordinates data as points on a map….In the Graph view, you can visualize the relationships between any two dimensions of your data….In the Gallery view, data can be displayed within a grid setting for quick reference.”