Books about US Politics: Network Visualization

Network of books about US politics with its frequent copurchasing of books by the same buyer.

Now, I am working on the project at the Knowledge Lab about books and its political spectrum from conservative to liberal. And I found this publicly available dataset online, so I think it would be good for me to try to visualize this network and see the relationship between books and its copurchase.

I got this dataset from Prof. Mark Newman's personal website page of Network data (If you are interested, you can check his website as well.) He is a physics professor at University of Michigan, conducting research on the structure and function of social and information networks. According to Prof. Newmann's website, this dataset contains

A network of books about US politics published around the time of the 2004 presidential election and sold by the online bookseller Amazon.com. Edges between books represent frequent copurchasing of books by the same buyers. The network was compiled by V. Krebs and is unpublished. 

Facebook Social Graph using Netvizz & Gephi

   
     Since I used Wolframalpha to analyze my facebook data (by just typing 'facebook' into it) in a minute back in 2012, I found it is really fascinating to make my own social graph using data from my own facebook account and see the connection that I have on facebook. Then, I found a blog called 'Persuasion' by Sarah Joy with a page called 'Using Netvizz & Gephi to Analyze a Facebook Network' about how to easily make a social graph using only two softwares: Netvizz and Gephi.

    - Netvizz allowed you to quickly download (if you do not have that many friends) your facebook data from the website as a gdf file.
    - Gephi will let you visualize gdf file easily with many options to change your own graph.

    I will not go into detail of how exactly to do this because you can find it extensively at the page I mentioned above. But I will tell you of what I found in my own social graph. It made me realize many friends that I used to keep in touch with and how those people are very far in connection with people that I am with now.

Social Graph for Me from Facebook Data