Motif Simplification: Improving Network Visualization Readability with Motif Glyphs
Channel: Cody Dunne
Date: 2013-01-22

It is difficult to visualize large networks. Motif simplification reduces network complexity by replacing common, repeating patterns with representative glyphs. Our controlled study shows this is helpful for many tasks.

For more details please see our full paper:

Dunne C and Shneiderman B (2013), "Motif simplification: improving network visualization readability with fan, connector, and clique glyphs", In CHI '13: Proc. 2013 international conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

It is available online here: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~cdunne/hcil/pubs/Dunne13Motifsimplification_improving.pdf

Motif simplification is now available in NodeXL, which you can download for free at http://nodexl.codeplex.com