Graphics Reference
In-Depth Information
Instead of shapes or colors, you can use images for nodes. The simplest case
can be literal images of items, such as flags for countries in a view of trade
flow, portraits for people in a social network, or photos of products.
Figure
5-26
shows a simple example of trade flow data using images of flags for
each node (created with NodeXL).
Figure 5-26:
The international trade flow with countries is indicated by
flags.
The approach using images can be extended to show different kinds of
attributes as an adjunct to other node attributes. The authors have created
visuals such as mini pie charts or mini-line charts used in graphs on some
particularoccasions.Thisrequiresextraefforttogeneratealltheimagesand
then to configure the graph software to use the images. But you can use this
