Visualization VocabularyDataviz vocabulary
Diagram: network
Drawing: Adrien Taudière (CC0)
ggplot2 example: network
Adrien Taudière (CC0); R code ↓; data: Zachary 1977, via igraphdata (Csárdi 2015) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

chart

network

Construction in which “the correspondences in the plane can be established between all the elements of one and the same component” (Bertin, translated).

réseau

Construction dont « les correspondances dans le plan peuvent s'établir entre tous les éléments d'une même composante ».

À distinguer du diagramme : le réseau met une composante en relation avec elle-même.

Classification

  • chart

Attestation

R code of the ggplot2 example

library(ggplot2)
library(igraph)
library(ggraph)

## One component, the club's members, set in correspondence with itself:
## a line joins two members who met outside the club.
data("karate", package = "igraphdata")
club <- upgrade_graph(karate)
V(club)$faction <- ifelse(V(club)$Faction == 1, "Mr Hi's faction", "John A's faction")

set.seed(3)
p <- ggraph(club, layout = "stress") +
  geom_edge_link(colour = "#a6a6a6", width = 0.3) +
  geom_node_point(aes(colour = faction), size = 2.4) +
  scale_colour_manual(values = unname(lex_colors[c("plum", "blue")]), name = NULL) +
  labs(title = "The 34 members of a karate club split into two factions",
       subtitle = "A line joins two members who met outside the club, 1970–1972",
       caption = "Data: Zachary 1977, via the igraphdata R package") +
  theme_lex_viz(grid = "", arrows = "") +
  theme(axis.text = element_blank(), axis.title = element_blank())

Sources (116)

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Cite this entry

Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/network.html

ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. network. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/network.html

BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-network,
  author    = {Taudière, Adrien},
  title     = {network},
  booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
  year      = {2026},
  version   = {1.0.0},
  publisher = {IdEst},
  url       = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/network.html},
  note      = {CC0 1.0}
}

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