What’s the state of the art / good practice in presenting network data? My gut feeling is that even though it’s a graph, it’s often not best rendered as one, and many times a collection of more familiar chart types or tables would be more useful.
Would love to hear people’s thoughts on this.
But I guess the biggest advantage lies in shallow hop visualizations (up to 10), where there is a smaller number of nodes, let's say a 100, but you can clearly understand what's happening because you can process all of the connections at first glance.
And even in the real life use cases, such as fraud detection, it's never going to be a million person organization that steals you money and resources, but a group of people closely tied together, which you can quickly inspect and look at, whereas looking at tabular data does not connect the dots.
You can draw a parallel when detectives marked the maps with needles and strings to connect the murder cases. Of course they didn't put a million needles on the wall, but a 100 of them was sufficient for inference.
