The goal of this project was to create different network visualizations based on the connectivity of characters in the movie by lines spoken in the same scene.<\/span><\/p>\n I picked the below visualization, figure 1, as an inspiration because it is a visualization on the same exact topic using Tableau and appears to use a similar dataset as the one I created for my project.<\/span><\/p>\n Figure 1. Retrieved from http:\/\/evelinag.com\/blog\/2015\/12-15-star-wars-social-network\/index.html#.WfTLkhNSyRu<\/p><\/div>\n I chose figure 2 below as an inspiration because it is an example of a network visualization that used Gephi for creation. It also is an example of a network of a larger cast of movie characters, the Star Wars Universe, which is similar to the larger cast in MPQHG.<\/p>\n Figure 2. Retrieved from http:\/\/evelinag.com\/blog\/2015\/12-15-star-wars-social-network\/starwars.png<\/p><\/div>\n Lastly, I picked the below visualization, figure 3, as an inspiration because I enjoyed the aesthetics of the visualizations, the black background and the shades of color used for nodes and edges, and how the different representations of the network are displayed in different layouts.<\/span><\/p>\n Figure 3. Retrieved from http:\/\/mkweb.bcgsc.ca\/linnet\/<\/p><\/div>\n For this project, I created my own dataset. I found a copy of the scripts for Monty Python\u2019s Quest for the Holy Grail <\/span>online<\/b><\/a>. I then used the script to create the dataset I needed.<\/span><\/p>\n I made three columns necessary for using Gephi:<\/span><\/p>\n I then created 2 more columns. One, titled \u2018actor\u2019, for the actors representing the actors who played the characters. The second, titled \u2018mp_member\u2019,\u00a0 was a yes\/no column for if the actor was a member of Monty Python.<\/span><\/p>\n I used <\/span>OpenRefine<\/b><\/a> to clean up the data. This was mostly just trimming leading and trailing whitespace and viewing text filters to ensure I had the correct amount of characters and no typos.<\/span><\/p>\n To create the visualizations I used <\/span>Gephi<\/b><\/a>, an open-sourced software for network visualization and analysis. After importing my data, I then ran statistics such as, degree, diameter, and graph density, which were automatically pushed into the \u2018Data Laboratory\u2019 in Gephi.<\/span><\/p>\n After exploring different layout options provided by Gephi and downloading some more plug-in options, my final visualizations were created by using two layouts: \u00a0Forced Atlas and Circular.<\/span><\/p>\n Below are the different visualizations that I created with my dataset using Gephi. In all of the visualizations, the nodes are a character in the movie and the edges are the connections by scene.<\/span><\/p>\n Figure 4<\/p><\/div>\n For the above visualization, I used the Forced Atlas Layout. The color and size of the nodes were created using degree and the edges by weight. In this visualization, I left in the labels (character names), but did not include them in figure 5 below.<\/span><\/p>\n Although sizing and color need work, I felt that this visualization demonstrated the connectivity between characters in the movie. A user can clearly see that Lancelot went off his own mini quest at some point during the movie. Other mini quests by knights are not as clear to see, but I believe that is from the scene in the movie that broke the fourth wall. During this scene, many of the otherwise unrelated characters in the movie have a line.<\/span><\/p>\n Figure 5, below, is another version of my first visualization, without labels, using different colors based on clustering, and attempting to fix the size of nodes and edges.<\/span><\/p>\n Figure 5<\/p><\/div>\n I also played around with the Circular Layout that is a plugin option for Gephi. The visualizations using the Circular Layout particularly need more work done on them for sizing of nodes and edges.<\/span><\/p>\n Figure 6 and figure 7 below are basically the same, except for the labels being present and thicker edges in figure 6. \u00a0Again, nodes were colored and sized by degree and edges colored by weight.<\/span><\/p>\n Figure 6<\/p><\/div>\nVISUAL INSPIRATIONS<\/b><\/h3>\n
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