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CINNA

Minoo Ashtiani, Mehdi Mirzaie, Mohieddin Jafari

2023-08-08

1 Introduction

CINNA is an R package submitted on CRAN repository which has been written for centrality analysis in network science. It can be useful for assembling, comparing, evaluating and visualizing several types of centrality measures. This document is an introduction to the usage of this package and includes some user interface examples.

Centrality is defined as a measure for identifying the most important vertices within a network in graph theory. Several centrality types have been provided to compute central nodes by different formulas, while some analysis are needed to evaluate the most informative ones. In this package, we have prepared these resolutions and some examples of real networks.

For the examples in the following sections, we assume that the CINNA package has been properly installed into the R environment. This can be done by typing

install.packages("CINNA")

into the R console. The igraph(Csardi and Nepusz 2006) ,network(Data. 2015; Butts 2008),sna(CT 2008, 2007) and centiserve(Jalili et al. 2015) packages are required and must be installed in your R environment as well. These are analogous to installing CINNA and for more other calculations, packages such as FactoMineR(Sebastien Le 2008), plyr(Wickham 2011) qdapTools(Rinker 2015), Rtsne(Krijthe 2015) are necessary. For some plots, factoextra(Kassambara, n.d.), GGally(Barret Schloerke and Larmarange 2016), pheatmap(Kolde 2015), corrplot(Simko and Viliam 2016), dendextend(Galili 2015), circlize(Gu et al. 2014), viridis(Garnier 2017) and ggplot2(Wickham2016?) packages must be installed too. After installations, the CINNA package can be loaded via

library(CINNA)

## Registered S3 method overwritten by 'GGally':
##   method from   
##   +.gg   ggplot2

2 Some real network examples

We collected five graphs instances based on factual datasets and natural networks. In order to develop some instructions for using this package, we prepared you a brief introduction about the topological of these networks as is described below:

Name	Type	Description	Nodes	Edges	References
zachary	unweighted, undirected	friendships between members of a club	34	78	(Zachary 1977)
cortex	unweighted, directed	pathways among cortical region in Macaque	30	311	(Felleman and Van Essen 1991)
kangaroo	weighted, undirected	interactions between kangaroos	17	90	(KONECT October 2016)
rhesus	weighted, directed	grooming occurred among monkeys of an area	16	110	(KONECT October 2016)
drugTarget	bipartite,directed	interactions among drugs and their protein targets	1599	3766	(Barneh, Jafari, and Mirzaie 2015)

2.1 Undirected & unweighted network

zachary(Zachary 1977) is an example of undirected and unweighted network in this package. This data set illustrates friendships between members of a university karate club. It is based on a faction membership after a social portion. The summary of important properties of this network is described below:

Edge Type: Friendship

Node Type: People

Avg Edges: 77.50

Avg Nodes: 34.00

Graph properties: Unweighted, Undirected

This data set can be easily accessed by using data() function:

data("zachary")
zachary

## IGRAPH 455c916 U--- 34 78 -- 
## + attr: id (v/n)
## + edges from 455c916:
##  [1]  1-- 2  1-- 3  2-- 3  1-- 4  2-- 4  3-- 4  1-- 5  1-- 6  1-- 7  5-- 7
## [11]  6-- 7  1-- 8  2-- 8  3-- 8  4-- 8  1-- 9  3-- 9  3--10  1--11  5--11
## [21]  6--11  1--12  1--13  4--13  1--14  2--14  3--14  4--14  6--17  7--17
## [31]  1--18  2--18  1--20  2--20  1--22  2--22 24--26 25--26  3--28 24--28
## [41] 25--28  3--29 24--30 27--30  2--31  9--31  1--32 25--32 26--32 29--32
## [51]  3--33  9--33 15--33 16--33 19--33 21--33 23--33 24--33 30--33 31--33
## [61] 32--33  9--34 10--34 14--34 15--34 16--34 19--34 20--34 21--34 23--34
## [71] 24--34 27--34 28--34 29--34 30--34 31--34 32--34 33--34

The result would have a class of “igraph” object.

2.2 Undirected & weighted network

kangaroo(KONECT October 2016) is a sample of undirected and weighted network which indicates interactions among free-ranging grey kangaroos. The edge between two nodes shows a dominance interaction between two kangaroos. The positive weight of each edge represents number of interaction between them. A brief explanation of it’s properties is clarified below:

Edge Type: Interaction

Node Type: Kangaroo

Avg Edges: 91

Nodes: 17

Graph properties: Weighted, Undirected

Edge weights: Positive weights

2.3 Directed & unweighted network

cortex(Felleman and Van Essen 1991) is a sample of macaque visual cortex network which is collected in 1991. In this data set, vertices represents neocortical areas which involved in visual functions in Macaques. The direction displays the progress of synapses from one to another. A summary of this can be as follows:

Edge Type: Pathway

Node Type: Cortical region

Avg Edges: 315.50

Nodes: 31.00

Graph properties: Directed, Unweighted

Edge weights: Positive weights

2.4 Directed & weighted network

rhesus(KONECT October 2016) is a directed and weighted network which describes grooming between free ranging rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) in Cayo Santiago during a two month period in 1963. In this data set a vertex is identified as a monkey and the directed edge among them means grooming between them. The weights of the edges demonstrates how often this manner happened. The network summary is as follows:

Edge Type: Grooming

Node Type: Monkey

Avg Edges: 111

Nodes: 16

Graph properties: Directed, Weighted

Edge weights: Positive weights

2.5 Bipartite & directed network

drugTarget(Barneh, Jafari, and Mirzaie 2015) is a bipartite, unconnected and directed network demonstrating interactions among Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved drugs and their corresponding protein targets. This network is a shrunken one in which metabolizing enzymes, carriers and transporters associated with drug metabolism are filtered and solely targets directly related to their pharmacological effects are included. A summary of this can be like:

Edge Type: interaction

Node Type: drug, protein target

Avg Edges: 3766

Nodes: 1599

Graph properties: Bipartite, unconnected, directed

3 Network component analysis

In order to apply several centrality analysis, it is recommended to have a connected graph. Therefore, approaching the connected components of a network is needed. In order to extract components of a graph and use them for centrality analysis, we prepared some functions as below.

3.1 The segregation of “igraph” and “network” objects

“graph.extract.components” function is able to read igraph and network objects and returns their components as a list of igraph objects. This function also has this ability to recognized bipartite graphs and user can decide that which project is suitable for his analysis. In order to use this function, we use zachary data set and develop it in all of our functions.

graph_extract_components(zachary)

## [[1]]
## IGRAPH ec8c272 U--- 34 78 -- 
## + attr: id (v/n)
## + edges from ec8c272:
##  [1]  1-- 2  1-- 3  2-- 3  1-- 4  2-- 4  3-- 4  1-- 5  1-- 6  1-- 7  5-- 7
## [11]  6-- 7  1-- 8  2-- 8  3-- 8  4-- 8  1-- 9  3-- 9  3--10  1--11  5--11
## [21]  6--11  1--12  1--13  4--13  1--14  2--14  3--14  4--14  6--17  7--17
## [31]  1--18  2--18  1--20  2--20  1--22  2--22 24--26 25--26  3--28 24--28
## [41] 25--28  3--29 24--30 27--30  2--31  9--31  1--32 25--32 26--32 29--32
## [51]  3--33  9--33 15--33 16--33 19--33 21--33 23--33 24--33 30--33 31--33
## [61] 32--33  9--34 10--34 14--34 15--34 16--34 19--34 20--34 21--34 23--34
## [71] 24--34 27--34 28--34 29--34 30--34 31--34 32--34 33--34

This results the only component of the zachary graph. This function is also applicable for bipartite networks. Using the num_proj argument, user can decide on which projection is interested to work on. As an example of bipartite graphs, we use drugTarget network as follows:

data("drugTarget")

drug_comp <- graph_extract_components( drugTarget, directed = TRUE, bipartite_proj = TRUE, num_proj = 1)

## This graph was created by an old(er) igraph version.
##   Call upgrade_graph() on it to use with the current igraph version
##   For now we convert it on the fly...

## Warning in handle_vertex_type_arg(types, graph): vertex types converted to
## logical

head(drug_comp)

## [[1]]
## IGRAPH 4bbc7bd UNW- 11 55 -- 
## + attr: id (v/n), name (v/c), weight (e/n)
## + edges from 4bbc7bd (vertex names):
##  [1] Abacavir     --Delavirdine   Abacavir     --Didanosine   
##  [3] Delavirdine  --Didanosine    Abacavir     --Efavirenz    
##  [5] Delavirdine  --Efavirenz     Didanosine   --Efavirenz    
##  [7] Abacavir     --Emtricitabine Delavirdine  --Emtricitabine
##  [9] Didanosine   --Emtricitabine Efavirenz    --Emtricitabine
## [11] Abacavir     --Lamivudine    Delavirdine  --Lamivudine   
## [13] Didanosine   --Lamivudine    Efavirenz    --Lamivudine   
## [15] Emtricitabine--Lamivudine    Abacavir     --Nevirapine   
## + ... omitted several edges
## 
## [[2]]
## IGRAPH 44a112b UNW- 5 10 -- 
## + attr: id (v/n), name (v/c), weight (e/n)
## + edges from 44a112b (vertex names):
##  [1] Abarelix   --Ganirelix   Abarelix   --Gonadorelin Ganirelix  --Gonadorelin
##  [4] Abarelix   --Leuprolide  Ganirelix  --Leuprolide  Gonadorelin--Leuprolide 
##  [7] Abarelix   --Nafarelin   Ganirelix  --Nafarelin   Gonadorelin--Nafarelin  
## [10] Leuprolide --Nafarelin  
## 
## [[3]]
## IGRAPH 47aba7c UNW- 3 3 -- 
## + attr: id (v/n), name (v/c), weight (e/n)
## + edges from 47aba7c (vertex names):
## [1] Abciximab   --Eptifibatide Abciximab   --Tirofiban   
## [3] Eptifibatide--Tirofiban   
## 
## [[4]]
## IGRAPH 8aba1fe UNW- 482 8179 -- 
## + attr: id (v/n), name (v/c), weight (e/n)
## + edges from 8aba1fe (vertex names):
##  [1] Acamprosate   --Alprazolam    Adinazolam    --Alprazolam   
##  [3] Acebutolol    --Alprenolol    Albuterol     --Alprenolol   
##  [5] Acetophenazine--Amantadine    Acebutolol    --Amiodarone   
##  [7] Alfuzosin     --Amiodarone    Alprenolol    --Amiodarone   
##  [9] Acetazolamide --Amlodipine    Amitriptyline --Amoxapine    
## [11] Alfuzosin     --Amphetamine   Amiodarone    --Amphetamine  
## [13] Aminophylline --Anagrelide    Alfentanil    --Anileridine  
## [15] Acetophenazine--Apomorphine   Amantadine    --Apomorphine  
## + ... omitted several edges
## 
## [[5]]
## IGRAPH 496f90d UNW- 4 4 -- 
## + attr: id (v/n), name (v/c), weight (e/n)
## + edges from 496f90d (vertex names):
## [1] Acarbose   --Bentiromide Acarbose   --Miglitol    Bentiromide--Miglitol   
## [4] Bentiromide--Orlistat   
## 
## [[6]]
## IGRAPH 326a4ae UNW- 34 522 -- 
## + attr: id (v/n), name (v/c), weight (e/n)
## + edges from 326a4ae (vertex names):
##  [1] Acetaminophen--Aspirin     Acetaminophen--Balsalazide
##  [3] Aspirin      --Balsalazide Acetaminophen--Bromfenac  
##  [5] Aspirin      --Bromfenac   Balsalazide  --Bromfenac  
##  [7] Acetaminophen--Carprofen   Aspirin      --Carprofen  
##  [9] Balsalazide  --Carprofen   Bromfenac    --Carprofen  
## [11] Acetaminophen--Celecoxib   Aspirin      --Celecoxib  
## [13] Balsalazide  --Celecoxib   Bromfenac    --Celecoxib  
## [15] Carprofen    --Celecoxib   Acetaminophen--Ciclopirox 
## + ... omitted several edges

It will return all components of the second projection of the network.

3.2 The segregation of other graph formats

If you had an edge list, an adjacency matrix or a grapnel format of a network, the misc_extract_components can be useful. This function extracts the components of other formats of graph. For illustration, we convert zachary graph to an edge list to be able to use it for this function.

library(igraph)
zachary_edgelist <- as_edgelist(zachary)

misc_extract_components(zachary_edgelist)

## [[1]]
## IGRAPH 9e7ebc0 D--- 34 78 -- 
## + edges from 9e7ebc0:
##  [1]  1-> 2  1-> 3  2-> 3  1-> 4  2-> 4  3-> 4  1-> 5  1-> 6  1-> 7  5-> 7
## [11]  6-> 7  1-> 8  2-> 8  3-> 8  4-> 8  1-> 9  3-> 9  3->10  1->11  5->11
## [21]  6->11  1->12  1->13  4->13  1->14  2->14  3->14  4->14  6->17  7->17
## [31]  1->18  2->18  1->20  2->20  1->22  2->22 24->26 25->26  3->28 24->28
## [41] 25->28  3->29 24->30 27->30  2->31  9->31  1->32 25->32 26->32 29->32
## [51]  3->33  9->33 15->33 16->33 19->33 21->33 23->33 24->33 30->33 31->33
## [61] 32->33  9->34 10->34 14->34 15->34 16->34 19->34 20->34 21->34 23->34
## [71] 24->34 27->34 28->34 29->34 30->34 31->34 32->34 33->34

3.3 Giant component extraction

In the most of research topics of network analysis, network features are related to the largest connected component of a graph(Newman 2010). In order to get that for an igraph or a network object, giant_component_extract function is specified. For using this function we can do:

giant_component_extract(zachary)

## [[1]]
## IGRAPH ddc362d U--- 34 78 -- 
## + attr: id (v/n)
## + edges from ddc362d:
##  [1]  1-- 2  1-- 3  2-- 3  1-- 4  2-- 4  3-- 4  1-- 5  1-- 6  1-- 7  5-- 7
## [11]  6-- 7  1-- 8  2-- 8  3-- 8  4-- 8  1-- 9  3-- 9  3--10  1--11  5--11
## [21]  6--11  1--12  1--13  4--13  1--14  2--14  3--14  4--14  6--17  7--17
## [31]  1--18  2--18  1--20  2--20  1--22  2--22 24--26 25--26  3--28 24--28
## [41] 25--28  3--29 24--30 27--30  2--31  9--31  1--32 25--32 26--32 29--32
## [51]  3--33  9--33 15--33 16--33 19--33 21--33 23--33 24--33 30--33 31--33
## [61] 32--33  9--34 10--34 14--34 15--34 16--34 19--34 20--34 21--34 23--34
## [71] 24--34 27--34 28--34 29--34 30--34 31--34 32--34 33--34
## 
## [[2]]
##       [,1] [,2]
##  [1,]    1    2
##  [2,]    1    3
##  [3,]    2    3
##  [4,]    1    4
##  [5,]    2    4
##  [6,]    3    4
##  [7,]    1    5
##  [8,]    1    6
##  [9,]    1    7
## [10,]    5    7
## [11,]    6    7
## [12,]    1    8
## [13,]    2    8
## [14,]    3    8
## [15,]    4    8
## [16,]    1    9
## [17,]    3    9
## [18,]    3   10
## [19,]    1   11
## [20,]    5   11
## [21,]    6   11
## [22,]    1   12
## [23,]    1   13
## [24,]    4   13
## [25,]    1   14
## [26,]    2   14
## [27,]    3   14
## [28,]    4   14
## [29,]    6   17
## [30,]    7   17
## [31,]    1   18
## [32,]    2   18
## [33,]    1   20
## [34,]    2   20
## [35,]    1   22
## [36,]    2   22
## [37,]   24   26
## [38,]   25   26
## [39,]    3   28
## [40,]   24   28
## [41,]   25   28
## [42,]    3   29
## [43,]   24   30
## [44,]   27   30
## [45,]    2   31
## [46,]    9   31
## [47,]    1   32
## [48,]   25   32
## [49,]   26   32
## [50,]   29   32
## [51,]    3   33
## [52,]    9   33
## [53,]   15   33
## [54,]   16   33
## [55,]   19   33
## [56,]   21   33
## [57,]   23   33
## [58,]   24   33
## [59,]   30   33
## [60,]   31   33
## [61,]   32   33
## [62,]    9   34
## [63,]   10   34
## [64,]   14   34
## [65,]   15   34
## [66,]   16   34
## [67,]   19   34
## [68,]   20   34
## [69,]   21   34
## [70,]   23   34
## [71,]   24   34
## [72,]   27   34
## [73,]   28   34
## [74,]   29   34
## [75,]   30   34
## [76,]   31   34
## [77,]   32   34
## [78,]   33   34

This function extracts the strongest components of the input network as igraph objects.

4 Centrality measure analysis

This section particularly is specified for centrality analysis in network science.

4.1 Suggestion of proper centralities

All of the introduced centrality measures are not appropriate for all types of networks. So, to figure out which of them is suitable, proper_centralities is specified. This function distinguishes proper centrality types based on network topology. To use this, we can do:

proper_centralities(zachary)

##  [1] "subgraph centrality scores"                      
##  [2] "Topological Coefficient"                         
##  [3] "Average Distance"                                
##  [4] "Barycenter Centrality"                           
##  [5] "BottleNeck Centrality"                           
##  [6] "Centroid value"                                  
##  [7] "Closeness Centrality (Freeman)"                  
##  [8] "ClusterRank"                                     
##  [9] "Decay Centrality"                                
## [10] "Degree Centrality"                               
## [11] "Diffusion Degree"                                
## [12] "DMNC - Density of Maximum Neighborhood Component"
## [13] "Eccentricity Centrality"                         
## [14] "Harary Centrality"                               
## [15] "eigenvector centralities"                        
## [16] "K-core Decomposition"                            
## [17] "Geodesic K-Path Centrality"                      
## [18] "Katz Centrality (Katz Status Index)"             
## [19] "Kleinberg's authority centrality scores"         
## [20] "Kleinberg's hub centrality scores"               
## [21] "clustering coefficient"                          
## [22] "Lin Centrality"                                  
## [23] "Lobby Index (Centrality)"                        
## [24] "Markov Centrality"                               
## [25] "Radiality Centrality"                            
## [26] "Shortest-Paths Betweenness Centrality"           
## [27] "Current-Flow Closeness Centrality"               
## [28] "Closeness centrality (Latora)"                   
## [29] "Communicability Betweenness Centrality"          
## [30] "Community Centrality"                            
## [31] "Cross-Clique Connectivity"                       
## [32] "Entropy Centrality"                              
## [33] "EPC - Edge Percolated Component"                 
## [34] "Laplacian Centrality"                            
## [35] "Leverage Centrality"                             
## [36] "MNC - Maximum Neighborhood Component"            
## [37] "Hubbell Index"                                   
## [38] "Semi Local Centrality"                           
## [39] "Closeness Vitality"                              
## [40] "Residual Closeness Centrality"                   
## [41] "Stress Centrality"                               
## [42] "Load Centrality"                                 
## [43] "Flow Betweenness Centrality"                     
## [44] "Information Centrality"                          
## [45] "Dangalchev Closeness Centrality"                 
## [46] "Group Centrality"                                
## [47] "Harmonic Centrality"                             
## [48] "Local Bridging Centrality"                       
## [49] "Wiener Index Centrality"

It returns the full names of suitable centrality types for the input graph. The input must have a class of igraph object.

4.2 Centrality computations

In the next step, proper centralities and those which are looking for can be chosen. In order to compute proper centrality types resulted from the proper_centralities, you can use calculate_centralities function as below.

calculate_centralities(zachary, include = "Degree Centrality")

## $`Degree Centrality`
##  [1] 16  9 10  6  3  4  4  4  5  2  3  1  2  5  2  2  2  2  2  3  2  2  2  5  3
## [26]  3  2  4  3  4  4  6 12 17

In this function, you have the ability to specify some centrality types that is not your favor to calculate by the conclude argument. Here, we will select first ten centrality measures for an illustration:

pr_cent <- proper_centralities(zachary)

##  [1] "subgraph centrality scores"                      
##  [2] "Topological Coefficient"                         
##  [3] "Average Distance"                                
##  [4] "Barycenter Centrality"                           
##  [5] "BottleNeck Centrality"                           
##  [6] "Centroid value"                                  
##  [7] "Closeness Centrality (Freeman)"                  
##  [8] "ClusterRank"                                     
##  [9] "Decay Centrality"                                
## [10] "Degree Centrality"                               
## [11] "Diffusion Degree"                                
## [12] "DMNC - Density of Maximum Neighborhood Component"
## [13] "Eccentricity Centrality"                         
## [14] "Harary Centrality"                               
## [15] "eigenvector centralities"                        
## [16] "K-core Decomposition"                            
## [17] "Geodesic K-Path Centrality"                      
## [18] "Katz Centrality (Katz Status Index)"             
## [19] "Kleinberg's authority centrality scores"         
## [20] "Kleinberg's hub centrality scores"               
## [21] "clustering coefficient"                          
## [22] "Lin Centrality"                                  
## [23] "Lobby Index (Centrality)"                        
## [24] "Markov Centrality"                               
## [25] "Radiality Centrality"                            
## [26] "Shortest-Paths Betweenness Centrality"           
## [27] "Current-Flow Closeness Centrality"               
## [28] "Closeness centrality (Latora)"                   
## [29] "Communicability Betweenness Centrality"          
## [30] "Community Centrality"                            
## [31] "Cross-Clique Connectivity"                       
## [32] "Entropy Centrality"                              
## [33] "EPC - Edge Percolated Component"                 
## [34] "Laplacian Centrality"                            
## [35] "Leverage Centrality"                             
## [36] "MNC - Maximum Neighborhood Component"            
## [37] "Hubbell Index"                                   
## [38] "Semi Local Centrality"                           
## [39] "Closeness Vitality"                              
## [40] "Residual Closeness Centrality"                   
## [41] "Stress Centrality"                               
## [42] "Load Centrality"                                 
## [43] "Flow Betweenness Centrality"                     
## [44] "Information Centrality"                          
## [45] "Dangalchev Closeness Centrality"                 
## [46] "Group Centrality"                                
## [47] "Harmonic Centrality"                             
## [48] "Local Bridging Centrality"                       
## [49] "Wiener Index Centrality"

calc_cent <- calculate_centralities(zachary, include  = pr_cent[1:10])

The result would be a list of computed centralities.

4.3 Recognition of most informative measures

In order to figure out the order of most important centrality types based on your graph structure, pca_centralities function can be used. This applies principal component analysis on the computed centrality values(Husson, Lê, and Pages 2010). For this, the result of calculate_centralities method is needed:

pca_centralities( calc_cent )

A display of most informative centrality measures based on principal component analysis. The red line indicates the random threshold of contribution. This barplot represents contribution of variable values based on the number of dimensions.

For choosing the number of principal components, we considered cumulative percentage of variance values which are more than 80 as the cut off which can be edited using cut.off argument. It returns a plot for visualizing contribution values of the computed centrality measures due to the number of principal components. The scale.unit argument gives the ability to whether it should normalize the input or not.

pca_centralities( calc_cent , scale.unit = FALSE )

A representation of most informative centrality measures based on principal component analysis between unscaled(not normalized) centrality values.

Another method for distinguishing which centrality measure has more information or in another words has more costs is using (t-SNE) t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding analysis(Van Der Maaten 2014). This is a non-linear dimensional reduction algorithm used for high-dimensional data. tsne_centralities function applies t-sne on centrality measure values like below:

tsne_centralities( calc_cent, dims = 2, perplexity = 1, scale=TRUE)

## Warning: The `<scale>` argument of `guides()` cannot be `FALSE`. Use "none" instead as
## of ggplot2 3.3.4.
## ℹ The deprecated feature was likely used in the CINNA package.
##   Please report the issue to the authors.
## This warning is displayed once every 8 hours.
## Call `lifecycle::last_lifecycle_warnings()` to see where this warning was
## generated.

A display of most informative centrality measures based on t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding analysis among scaled(not normalized) centrality values.

This returns the bar plot of computed cost values of each centrality measure on a plot. In order to access only computed values of PCA and t-sne methods, summary_pca_centralities and tsne_centralities functions can be helpful.

5 visualization of centrality analysis

To visualize the results of network centrality analysis some convenient functions have been developed as it described below.

5.1 Graph visualization regarding to the centrality type

After evaluating centrality measures, demonstrating high values of centralities in some nodes gives an overall insight about the network to the researcher. By using visualize_graph function, you will be able to illustrate the input graph based on the specified centrality value. If the centrality measure values were computed, computed.centrality.value argument is recommended. Otherwise, using centrality.type argument, the function will compute centrality based on the input name of centrality type. For practice, we specifies Degree Centrality. Here,

visualize_graph( zachary , centrality.type="Degree Centrality")

Graph illustration based on centrality measure. The size of nodes represent the degree centrality values.

5.2 Heatmap of centrality measure values

On of the way of complex large network visualizations(more than 100 nodes and 200 edges) is using heat map(Pryke, Mostaghim, and Nazemi 2007). visualize_heatmap function demonstrates a heat map plot between the centrality values. The input is a list containing the computed values.

visualize_heatmap( calc_cent , scale = TRUE  )

Observed centrality measure heatmap. The colors from blue to red displays scaled centrality values.

5.3 Correlation between computed centrality measures

Comprehending pair correlation among centralities is a popular analysis for researchers(Dwyer et al. 2006). In order to that, visualize_correlations method is appropriate. In this you are able to specify the type of correlation which you are enthusiastic to obtain.

visualize_correlations(calc_cent,"pearson")

A display of correlation among computed centrality measures. The red to blue highlighted circles represent the top to bottom Pearson correlation coefficients(Benesty et al. 2009) which differ from -1 to 1. The higher the value becomes larger, circles’ sizes get larger too.

5.4 Node dendrogram based on a centrality type

In order to visualize a simple clustering across the nodes of a graph based on a specific centrality measure, we can use the visualize_dendrogram function. This function draw a dendrogram plot in which colors indicate the clusters.

visualize_dendrogram(zachary, k=4)

Circular dendrogram plot of vertices based on specified centrality measure. Each color represents a cluster.

5.5 Regression across centrality measures

In this package additionally to correlation calculation, ability to apply linear regression for each pair of centralities has been prepared to realize the association between centralities. For visualization, visualize_association method is an appropriate function to use:

subgraph_cent <- calc_cent[[1]]
Topological_coef <- calc_cent[[2]]

visualize_association(  subgraph_cent , Topological_coef)

## $linear.regression
## 
## Call:
## lm(formula = df[, 2] ~ df[, 1])
## 
## Coefficients:
## (Intercept)      df[, 1]  
##   1.210e-16   -7.059e-01  
## 
## 
## $visualization

Association plot between two centrality variables. The red line is an indicator of linear regression line among them.

5.6 Pairwise correlation between centrality types

To access the distribution of centrality values and their corresponding pair correlation value, visualize_pair_correlation would be helpful. The Pearson correlation(Benesty et al. 2009) has been used for this method.

visualize_pair_correlation( subgraph_cent , Topological_coef)

Pairwise Pearson correlation between two centrality values.

The result is a scatter plot visualizing correlation values.

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