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Raptors fan page (about 1,600), and the
Edges
worksheet will be populated
with a list of every two people who commented on the same post (about
15,000).
For each fan, the
Vertices
worksheet will include a name and photo, as
well as demographic attributes such as sex and locale. It will also include
a concatenated collection of all comments made by each fan in the “Tweet”
column. This will be an ideal place to do a little more analysis on the
comments, but it's a good idea to get a visual look at the data first and
see whether your sample is the right scale to give you some insights into
community structure.
Figure 11-4:
Importing Facebook data will populate the Edges and
Vertices worksheets with people who commented on the same posts.
You might have already noticed that NodeXL includes some basic
graph-plotting capabilities, which can sometimes be useful for validating
any data processing and enhancements you are working on in the
spreadsheet. However, to make any sense of a graph this size, you will
probably want to import it into a visualization tool like Gephi. Under the
