Graphics Reference
In-Depth Information
Putting It All Together
Exploration, explanation, and export are various interactions with a graph
that help achieve insight, share insights, and use those insights.
Many of these interactions are used together to enable exploratory analysis
of a large graph by providing an easy means to aid the formulation of a
hypothesis, test assumptions, explore relationships, and sift through the
graph. You can repeat this process iteratively to test a wide variety of ideas
to gain a wide variety of insights:
Navigate —Zoom and pan are essential to move between an overall
context and a view of local detail.
Identify —Accessing all the data associated with a node via mouse-over
or mouse-click establishes which nodes are which, helps establish
landmarks within the scene, and allows for inspection of detail data.
Filter —Interactive filtering enables exploratory analysis of a large
graph and provides a quick means to isolate subsets of the graph based
on any data attributes.
Isolate —You can isolate and then analyze graph subsets separately,
including re-layout, changing attributes, and any other exploratory
interactions.
Neighbors —Adjacencies indicate the direct relationships to a
particular node.
Paths —You can use paths to identify a route though a large graph to
understand how to connect from one point to another.
Delete/move/modify —You can delete individual nodes (for example,
to see what connections remain with a target node removed), move
them to make patterns more clear, or modify them to stand out (for
example, by changing shape).
Group —You can combine multiple nodes.
After gaining a number of insights, you should consider the following when
communicating these findings to other people:
Sequence —Use a story to explain the objective, what the configuration
is, and what patterns can be seen.
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