A little while ago I reviewed Ken Cherven’s book Network Graph Analysis and Visualisation with Gephi, it’s fair to say I was not very complementary about it. It was rather short, and had quite a lot of screenshots. It’s strength was in introducing every single element of the Gephi interface. This book, Mastering Gephi Network […]
Book review: Graph Databases by Ian Robinson, Jim Webber and Emil Eifrem
Regular readers will know I am on a bit of a graph binge at the moment. In computer science and mathematics graphs are collections of nodes joined by edges, they have all sorts of applications including the study of social networks and route finding. Having covered graph theory and visualisation, I now move on to […]
Book review: Linked by Albert-László Barabási
I am on a bit of a graph theory binge, it started with an attempt to learn about Gephi, the graph visualisation software, which developed into reading a proper grown up book on graph theory. I then learnt a little more about practicalities on reading Seven Databases in Seven Weeks, which included a section on […]
Book review: Mining the Social Web by Matthew A. Russell
The twitter search and follower tools are amongst the most popular on the ScraperWiki platform so we are looking to provide more value in this area. To this end I’ve been reading “Mining the Social Web” by Matthew A. Russell. In the first instance the book looks like a run through the APIs for various […]