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The NodeXL Series: Visualizing NodeXL Graphs (Part 3)

To give a sense of the various types of graphs that may be “drawn” from data using NodeXL, this entry highlights some of the different types of graphs.  This entry will be created  using a data extraction from Twitter. All the graphs here will be taken from the same data set; the only differences in visualizations will come from the layout algorithms.   [This data crawl—more on this in later entries—was a 2-degree crawl of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Laurie Garrett’s (Laurie_Garrett) user network on the microblogging site Twitter, with an ego neighborhood limit of 100 persons (alters).  Her formal account has 3,768 Tweets, 228 following, and 2,558 followers.)

The Data Extraction

This data extraction required an over-night crawl because of Twitter-imposed limits per its application programming interface (API) and the size of the electronic social network.

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