Networks & Trees

Materials for class on Monday, October 14, 2019

Contents

Announcements

1. Quiz 2

2. Problem Set 2

3. Design Contest next week and DataCamp 3 due in two weeks (Nov 5.)

Tweet of the day

New #shiny app! Something I've been playing around with for a while - a #dataviz of actors appearing in Wes Anderson films. Now interactive! Using the #wesanderson 🎨📦 of course! Along with #tidygraph and #visNetwork.https://t.co/vQz3IiNnNP#SoDS19 #rstats pic.twitter.com/QcNqsqNiVP

— David Smale 🔎 (@committedtotape) July 3, 2019

Slides:

full screen / pdf version

Links:

• Spring 2019 DSBA5122 Group 4’s Final Project by Bala Kuppusamy, Minglan Ye, Jiamin Lei: Social Butterfly Shiny App and Project GitHub repoThat team combined their Design Contest and Final Project on one GitHub repo.
  
  

• Network Centrality measures by David Schoch’s “Introduction to Centrality Measures” blog post and netrankr package.While there are only a handful of centrality measures that are typically used, there are many different ones that capture slightly different relationships. See David’s periodic table of centrality measures for a more holistic outline of these measures.
  
  

• François Briatte’s ggnet packageFrançois has a really cool set of pages that show legislature co-sponorship for 27 countries, for example the US Congress or interactive plots for many European legislatures.
  
  

Lab: Networks & Trees

• RStudio Cloud project for sample Shiny apps