A citation network usually looks like the one on the right. Martin Krzywinski from the Genome Sciences Center would call it a hairball, and he makes a convincing argument why the hive plots are better.
I wonder if we could visualise citation network data (say from the Web of Knowledge databases) in a hive plot and get more out of the data than from a force-directed network. Here's an example from Mike Bostock, showing the dependency graph of the Flare visualization toolkit.
Of course, it doesn't have to be a hive plot. The question is, how we could better visualise citation network? matrix diagrams and hierarchical edge bundling are two other approaches.
A citation network usually looks like the one on the right. Martin Krzywinski from the Genome Sciences Center would call it a hairball, and he makes a convincing argument why the hive plots are better.
I wonder if we could visualise citation network data (say from the Web of Knowledge databases) in a hive plot and get more out of the data than from a force-directed network. Here's an example from Mike Bostock, showing the dependency graph of the Flare visualization toolkit.
Of course, it doesn't have to be a hive plot. The question is, how we could better visualise citation network? matrix diagrams and hierarchical edge bundling are two other approaches.