visualizing temporal evolution of networks
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Visualizing Temporal Evolution of Networks. Jae-wook Ahn, Awalin Sopan , Catherine Plaisant, Meirav Taieb-maimon , and Ben Shneiderman { jahn,awalin,plaisant,ben }@ cs.umd.edu ; meiravta@ bgu.ac.il Human Computer Interaction Lab University of Maryland. Goals. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Visualizing Temporal Evolution of Networks
Jae-wook Ahn, Awalin Sopan, Catherine Plaisant, Meirav Taieb-maimon, and Ben Shneiderman
{jahn,awalin,plaisant,ben}@cs.umd.edu; [email protected]
Human Computer Interaction LabUniversity of Maryland
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Goals
1. Visually represent temporal changes of networks
2. Understand the meaning of the changes– Infer the cause and the results of the phenomena– Support the evaluation of Success
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What are the temporal pattern of the changes?
Why does the pattern appear?
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What to Visualize?
• Nation of Neighbors– Collaboration with a social community service– http://www.nationofneighbors.com
• Temporal evolution of social activities– Conversation (Post & Reply network)– Crime report– Invitation network to the service
• Additional variables for inferential analysis
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NoN Activities ExampleTotal number of conversations per community (Cumulative)
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Watch Jefferson County (WV)
Duncan St. Neighborhood (CA)
Greater Round Rock West Neighborhood Association (TX)
Killian Pines (FL)
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How to Visualize?
• Highlight temporal changes– Additions & deletions– Network metrics
• Three Tools to Show Time Differences– NodeXL– TempoVis– ManyNets
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NodeXL www.codeplex.com/nodexl
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NoN Invitation Network
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TempoVis
• Combines node/link diagram + timeline visualizations– Navigation with a “Time Slider”– Marquee-selection of sub-groups
• Shows addition and aging of node/links
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ManyNets
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Visualize many networks simultaneously
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ManyNets
Post Reply Report
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Overview: Activeness and Growth
2005 2011 11 76Activity over time Node
Watch-Jefferson County
com
mun
ities
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Split Network by Time
Post Reply Report
More reports
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ManyNets Features
• Quick overview of networks
• Analyze activity patterns over time
• Identify groups and outliers
• Identify similar communities
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Take Away Message• Temporal network visualization • Social network (e.g. NoN) data
• Goals– Visually represent temporal changes of networks– Understand the meaning of the changes
• Three visualization tools Different benefits!
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Acknowledgements• ManyNets development
– Manuel Freire• NodeXL
– Microsoft External Research• Support
– National Science Foundation grant IIS0968521– National Science Foundation-Computing Research Association
Computing Innovation Fellow– Lockheed Martin
• Comments & Feedbacks– Nation of Neighbors team, Art Hanson, Derek Hansen, Mark Smith,
Adam Perer, PJ Rey, and Alan Neustadtlhttp://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/NON
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