Network data visualization
Walter Didimo, Giuseppe Liotta, Fabrizio Montecchiani · Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks · 2024
Representing data in a meaningful, visual way that users can interpret and easily comprehend is a key requirement for many businesses and organizations. Information visualization tools support decision-makers in the process of navigating the data effectively to deliver value to the entire organization. Moreover, data sets arising from a variety of applications, such as social networks, exhibit a relational nature and can be conveniently modeled as graphs, possibly enriched with labels and properties on vertices and edges. In this context, network visualization is a key research area, which requires a broad range of skills to be successfully tackled. This chapter introduces and shortly surveys some fundamental paradigms and techniques to visualize networked data sets, with a particular focus on social networks.