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Visualizations of a Social Network

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Information visualization has its roots into the early cartography and visual representation. The first evidence of visualization ages back to the second century bc in which the ancient astronomers tried to depict the orbits of the known planetary objects. Later on with the advancements in the mathematical and statistical sciences, different visualizations appeared and were used in various other disciplines such as medicine and social sciences [54]. Some well-known examples of how information visualization was used before the advancement of computers is the map of Napoleon’s march to Moscow and its corresponding retreat designed by Minard, Florence Nightingale’s death rate reduction diagram in hospitals after the implementations of the suggested changes and the Soho cholera epidemic in London in 1854 by Dr. John Show in which it was possible to identify the source of the contagion [155].

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Karampelas, P. (2013). Visualizations of a Social Network. In: Techniques and Tools for Designing an Online Social Network Platform. Lecture Notes in Social Networks, vol 3. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-0787-4_7

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