14 - 19 OCTOBER, 2012. SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, USA

Visualizing Book Similarity as Topographic Map

Contributors: 
Martin Gronemann, Michael Junger
Description
The visualization of clustered graphs is an essential tool for the analysis of networks, in which clustering techniques like community detection can reveal various structural properties. We give a brief description of how we succeeded to draw clustered graphs as topographic maps by combining a tree map approach with the topographic map metaphor. The proposed method is then applied to a similarity network of bestseller books of the Amazon website.