{"id":20343,"date":"2020-10-28T15:55:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T19:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infovis\/?p=20343"},"modified":"2020-10-28T16:25:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T20:25:30","slug":"stack-overflow-tags-network-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infovis\/visualization\/stack-overflow-tags-network-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Stack Overflow Tags – NETWORK ANALYSIS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Developer Story Concept by Stack Overflow<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Introduction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Stack Overflow<\/a> is a question and answer based online community created in 2008. It aims at helping developers and programmers across the globe to disseminate their programming knowledge and build their careers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A developer story<\/a> is a way to showcase the aspect of a developer\u2019s identity. It aims to provide an entire picture of who you are. In order to understand how technologies are related to each other, several developer stories were analyzed by Stack Overflow where developers make use of \u2018tags\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to visualize this relationship better, I made use of Gephi<\/a> to create a Network for the same where the technologies were represented as nodes while the relationship between them was represented as edges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inspiration<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To get started with Gephi<\/a>, I looked at the sample Les Miserables network which is also a sample available in the software itself. To explore the basic functionalities, I watched the tutorial video available for the same on YouTube which covered the concepts of layouts, editing of nodes and edges as well as some basic statistics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I specifically liked about this network was the use of the Force Atlas layout to create small clusters of closely related nodes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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