Graphics Reference
In-Depth Information
NodeXL ribbon, click Export
⇒
To GraphML File… to save the file in a
common graph file format.
Open the saved file in Gephi. A dialog box appears with options for
interpreting the data. Choose Undirected as the link type, and proceed to
finish the import and plot the resulting graph. If what you see looks like
nothing you recognize (an indecipherable mess, as shown in
Figure 11-5
)
,
congratulations, you have coughed up your first hairball. Because the graph
file does not yet have coordinates assigned to the nodes, Gephi has
distributed them randomly. Additional effort is required to make sense of
the graph, starting with the application of layout.
