For this week's assignment, we were tasked with creating a social network visualization. To create mine, I used RStudio and included the following R packages:
As for the dataset selection, I must admit it was a bit tricky at first but then I located this interesting resource on GitHub which linked me to a plethora of different social network analysis datasets.
Here's the resource: awesome-network-analysis
From this list, I decided to check out this website called Moviegalaxies, which dedicates itself to documenting character interactions in popular movies. Although they do provide their own analysis, individuals are welcome to download their .json data files for further analysis. After perusing their movies, I decided to go with their Toy Story dataset and was able to visualize the following.
Code:
Visual:
Success or Failure:
I would say that this visual was a success. Immediately we see that Buzz has the most interactions just based on all the links and the centrality he has in the visual. However, there are some data discrepancies. For example, Sid's Mom and Mom are the same person. Thinking about how I would make this visual better, I would like to place the labels to be above the nodes instead of directly on top of the node. Additionally, it would be great to adjust the node placement a bit so that the labels are a little easier to read.
~ Katie
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