A first look at Alteryx 10’s Network Analysis tool

Alteryx version 10 was recently released, with all sorts of juicy new features in realms such as usability, data manipulation and statistical modelling. Perhaps one of the most interesting ones for me though is the new Network Analysis tool. This provides an easy way to make network graph visualisations natively, something that many general purpose … Continue reading A first look at Alteryx 10’s Network Analysis tool

Gephi basics: simple network graph analysis from spreadsheet data

Several interesting phenomena can be modelled and analysed using graph theory. Graph theory, which Wikipedia tells me first had a paper published about it in 1736 (!) can at its most basic perhaps be thought of as mathematical techniques to analyse problems where one can represent the protagonists as a set of objects (nodes) and lines connecting … Continue reading Gephi basics: simple network graph analysis from spreadsheet data