The other week, I found an interesting looking library on GitHub. ada-url, a WHATWG-compliant and fast URL parser written in modern C++. Since we need such a thing at work to analyze webtracking data, and I recently successfully wrapped my first C++... [Read more...]

Researchers have relied on free/easy access to APIs from social media platforms for a very long time. But in the recent past, many prominent platforms revoked the free access to their API and made accessing the data almost unaffordable for regular r... [Read more...]

In this post, I will introduce a few extensions for Quarto to create nicely looking CVs. Disclaimer: the underlying templates where not created by me but where adopted from these LaTeX templates for CVs and resumes and this modern Latex CV. Creating... [Read more...]

Almost a year ago, I introduced my most recent network related R packages netUtils. The package is meant as a catch-all package where I gather network analytic methods that haven’t yet been implemented in R and may not deserve there own package. Bet... [Read more...]

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Reproducibility is a big issue in the (computational) world of science. Code that runs today might not run tomorrow because packages are updated, functions deprecated or removed, and whole programming languages change. In the case of R, there exist ... [Read more...]

It has been a wild view days on Twitter after Elon Musk took over. The future of the platform is unclear and many users are looking for alternatives, a popular one being mastodon. I also decided to give it a try and signed up. I quite quickly becam... [Read more...]

During the last 5 years, I have accumulated various scripts with (personal) convenience functions for network analysis and I also implemented new methods from time to time which I could not find in any other package in R. The package netUtils gathers all these functions and makes them available for anyone ... [Read more...]

I have been following the development of quarto for a while now and I am pretty excited about it. Not only its features but also its rich and detailed documentation will make me transition from Rmarkdown to Quarto in the long run. While moving my personal webpage, I realized though ... [Read more...]

This post introduces the R package rougsf, which wraps the java script library rough.js to draw sketchy, hand-drawn-like maps. The package was born out of the 30DayMapChallenge which I participated in this year. #install.packages("remotes&qu... [Read more...]

This post introduces new features of edgebundle, an R package that implements several edge bundling/flow and metro map algorithms. In this post, I will introduce edge-path bundling (paper) and smooth flow maps. Given that edge bundling is mostly u... [Read more...]

People regularly ask me if it is possible to animate a network evolution with {{ggraph}} and {{gganimate}}. Unfortunately this is not yet possible. But fear not! There is a way to still get it done with some hacking around the ggraph package. In th... [Read more...]

This post introduces the R package edgebundle, an R package that implements several edge bundling/flow and metro map algorithms. The package includes the following algorithms: Force directed edge bundling edge_bundle_force() (paper) Stub bundling... [Read more...]

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This post introduces the R package rougnet, which wraps the java script library rough.js to draw sketchy, hand-drawn-like networks. From all my network packages, this is probably the most useless but most fun one I developed. The package is so far only available on github, but it already has ... [Read more...]

This post introduces layout_as_multilevel(), a new function in the {{graphlayouts}} package. As the name suggests, this function can be use to visualize multilevel networks. A multilevel network consists of two (or more) levels with different node sets and intra-level ties. For instance, one level could be scientists and ... [Read more...]

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In this post I am going to share some bits of code for some common problems that I encountered with {{ggraph}}. By problems, I do not mean problems in the package. Rather, I mean the things you want to do, that require going a little beyond the standard use cases. ... [Read more...]

This post introduces the R package signnet, available on CRAN, which implements several methods to analyze signed networks. Signed networks include two types of relations, positive and negative ones (say friends and enemies). They are fundamentally different from traditional networks and require a very different set of tools to analyse ... [Read more...]

There are many network repositories out there that offer a large variety of amazing free data. (See the awesome network analysis list on github for an overview.) The problem is, that network data can come in many formats. Either in plain text as edgelist or adjacency matrix, or in a ... [Read more...]