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Usingoneoftheauthor'se-mailsasanexample,linkshavebeencreatedthat
identify different products and strategic relationships in e-mails between a
pair of people. Coloring link types by these relationships can then reveal
who is involved in which types of discussions, as shown by the color legend
associated with this graph in Figure 9-7 .
AsubsetofthisgraphwasdiscussedinChapter5,“VisualAttributes.” Figure
9-7 shows a much larger graph (2,000 nodes and 10,000 edges) than the
previous examples. Here, the patterns are difficult to discern at a high level.
You can see many components and various colors in the largest component
(top right), but many overlapping links are obscuring each other, even when
using transparency. If you want to focus on which people are
communicating about which products, you are able to make only very broad
generalizations about this large cluster, such as that it tends to be more blue
left of center, more purple below center, and more reddish-brown above
center.
 
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