{"id":3062,"date":"2015-04-30T10:39:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T14:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/research.prattsils.org\/?p=3062"},"modified":"2015-04-30T10:39:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T14:39:34","slug":"mad-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infovis\/visualization\/mad-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Mad Men"},"content":{"rendered":"

madmengephi (2)<\/a><\/p>\n

First, a few words on Gephi.\u00a0 I was disappointed that it was so difficult to use, specifically that it didn\u2019t allow \u201cundo\u201d\u00a0 and that it was so difficult to save drafts.<\/p>\n

I was interested in exploring various things with the relationships of Mad Men.\u00a0 Had I been more deft with the program, I could have better visualized the answer to the question, \u201cIn how many cases did an ad executive sleep with his secretary, who then became his girlfriend, who then became his wife?\u201d\u00a0 (The answer is two \u2013 Roger with Jane and then Don with Megan.)\u00a0 Also, \u201cIn how many cases did an executive sleep with a fellow employee resulting in a baby?\u201d (Again, the answer is two, but in neither case the wives \u2013 Roger and Joan had Kevin, and Pete and Peggy had Peggy\u2019s baby, who was never seen.)\u00a0 However, I wasn\u2019t able to get to the point where I could sift and select the attributes, so that a secretary could also be a girlfriend, and then a wife.\u00a0 Perhaps this is not possible in Gephi.\u00a0 The line from Roger to Jane, for example, would be red, fuschia, and blue.\u00a0 I would have liked to have grouped the secretaries, and the employee relationships that went beyond the professional, into wives and babies.<\/p>\n

I would also have liked to provide a legend describing what the colors of the \u201cedges\u201d signify.\u00a0 They are:<\/p>\n

Red = agency relationship (they work together at the agency)<\/p>\n

Fuschia = family (spouse or offspring)<\/p>\n

Blue = girlfriend<\/p>\n

Tan = wife of an agency employee other than Don or Roger (that is, has no role but to appear as an agency employee\u2019s wife sporadically)<\/p>\n

Purple = client<\/p>\n

Bright light green = friend<\/p>\n

I was surprised at the amount of light green.\u00a0 The characters of Man Men are not noted for their warmth or kindness toward one another, but when you look at the visualization, it becomes clear that the \u201cfamily\u201d is where the cluster of the nucleus is, that even secretaries with minor roles are more important to the center than are wives.<\/p>\n

This particular chart is marred by the glitch in the original data that put number values on nodes below the characters\u2019 names \u2013 they surround the nucleus like outlying stars, but don\u2019t signify anything.\u00a0 If I were to continue with Gephi, I would like to adjust the size of the font so that characters\u2019 names didn\u2019t overlap (Pete Campbell and Peggy Olson crash into one another, which is amusing in light of their relationship on the show).<\/p>\n

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madmengephi (2) First, a few words on Gephi.\u00a0 I was disappointed that it was so difficult to use, specifically that it didn\u2019t allow \u201cundo\u201d\u00a0 and that it was so difficult to save drafts. I was interested in exploring various things with the relationships of Mad Men.\u00a0 Had I been more deft with the program, I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-visualization"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paBdcV-No","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infovis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infovis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infovis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infovis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infovis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infovis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infovis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infovis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infovis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3062"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infovis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}