Network Visualization

Graph-typed data is ubiquitous, from logistical or transportation networks, through social or correspondence networks, all the way to more abstract biochemical interaction networks. Each such application domain brings with it unique analytical goals, metadata, canonical representations, as well as types of vertices and edges. Routine, automated analyses of such data, while important, can often not fully support the kind of decision-making or data exploration necessary for more complex and/or larger networks. Here, it is through (interactive) visualization that we can support domain experts in their exploratory and (semi-) confirmatory research endeavors. On the one hand, we can build custom, tailor-made interactive, visual dashboards which directly address the needs and support the analysis of our domain expert collaborators. On the other, we can look at more foundational questions about how to best represent graph-typed data or better understand the factors which negatively/positively affect comprehension.