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Figure 11-8:
Mapping color to node attributes such as gender in this
example expresses facets of each cluster.
Tip
The three most important considerations in choosing colors are cultural
associations, discriminability, and relative salience (how much it
“pops”). Chapter 16, “Design,” includes more guidelines on color and
other design choices.
The resulting visualization reveals the super-fan as a large pink node in the
middle, with other female fans in pink spread throughout. Other pink nodes
are social connectors, but if they are any more likely to be connectors than
