graph | Getting Under the Water

I recently had a conversation on Twitter about a plot I made a while back. Recall, the plot showed my Twitter network, my friends and my friend’s friends.

Here’s the Twitter thread:

@willchernoff Hey! I saw your awesome graph there: https://t.co/dnFZQdYpxW Did you use https://t.co/NTKRXB4nB1?

— Antoine Dusséaux 柳华 (@ADssx) November 24, 2015

@ADssx glad you liked the graph! I made it using #iGraph in #R. @januverma makes great #python and #d3 stuff.

— Yung Spielbergo (@willchernoff) November 24, 2015

@ADssx @januverma I can share code next Monday. I'm traveling all week.

— Yung Spielbergo (@willchernoff) November 24, 2015

@willchernoff OK. Thanks!

— Antoine Dusséaux 柳华 (@ADssx) November 24, 2015

And here’s the R code:

#### Load R libraries
library("iGraph")

#### Load edgelist
r <- read.csv(file="edgelist_friends.csv-03-25.csv",header=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE)[,-1]

#### Convert to graph object
gr <- graph.data.frame(r,directed=TRUE)

#### gr
# Describe graph
summary(gr)
ecount(gr) # Edge count
vcount(gr) # Node count
diameter(gr) # Network diameter
farthest.nodes(gr) # Nodes furthest apart
V(gr)$indegree = degree(gr,mode="in") # Calculate indegree

#### Plot graph
E(gr)$color = "gray"
E(gr)$width = .5
E(gr)$arrow.width = .25
V(gr)$label.color = "black"
V(gr)$color = "dodgerblue"
V(gr)$size = 4

set.seed(40134541)
l <- layout.fruchterman.reingold(gr)

pdf("network_friends_plot.pdf")
plot(gr,layout=l,rescale=TRUE,axes=FALSE,ylim=c(-1,1),asp=0,vertex.label=NA)
dev.off()

Here is an example of how to highlight the members of a subgraph on a plot of a network graph.

## Load R libraries
library(igraph)

# Set adjacency matrix
g <- matrix(c(0,1,1,1, 1,0,1,0, 1,1,0,1, 0,0,1,0),nrow=4,ncol=4,byrow=TRUE)

# Set adjacency matrix to graph object
g <- graph.adjacency(g,mode="directed")

# Add node attribute label and name values
V(g)$name <- c("n1","n2","n3","n4")

# Set subgraph members
c <- c("n1","n2","n3")

# Add edge attribute id values
E(g)$id <- seq(ecount(g))

# Extract supgraph
ccsg <- induced.subgraph(graph=g,vids=c)

# Extract edge attribute id values of subgraph
ccsgId <- E(ccsg)$id

# Set graph and subgraph edge and node colors and sizes
E(g)$color="grey"
E(g)$width=2
E(g)$arrow.size=1
E(g)$arrow.width=1
E(g)[ccsgId]$color <- "#DC143C" # Crimson
E(g)[ccsgId]$width <- 2
V(g)$size <- 4
V(g)$color="#00FFFF" # Cyan
V(g)$label.color="#00FFFF" # Cyan
V(g)$label.cex <-1.5
V(g)[c]$label.color <- "#DC143C" # Crimson
V(g)[c]$color <- "#DC143C" # Crimson

# Set seed value
set.seed(40041)

# Set layout options
l <- layout.fruchterman.reingold(g)

# Plot graph and subgraph
plot.igraph(x=g,layout=l)

Simple, no?