Newbie here...help getting started

[dee8512]

We would like to create a network diagram for our industry that links government organizations, universities, profs at those universities and papers they have published, other education organizations, volunteer organizations, businesses and see how they are all connected and relate to each other, and if someone could click on a researcher for example, and then see a list of papers they have published and what not.

Is something like this possible to do?

As of right now I have an excel sheet that lists area of study, researcher, institution and province. There is a little bit of overlap with some people/places/research area so you can already see a little bit of a relationship between some of them. But how do I go and put this data into the right form for the program.

Sorry... I'm really new here, and not too familiar with anything. Any help would be appreciated.

[admin]

Hi,

You need to create 2 spreadsheets in CSV: one for the nodes, the other for the edges.

The format is detailed here:
https://gephi.org/users/supported-graph ... readsheet/

Then import each spreadsheet using Data Laboratory > Import Spreadsheet

if someone could click on a researcher for example, and then see a list of papers they have published and what not

It's not possible without coding it.

[dee8512]

Is there anyway you or someone else could walk me through this?
Because honestly I'm not familiar with the language at all and have not done anything with this program so I'm not even sure what nodes and edges mean and how to figure out what data I want in each.
I would really appreciate it.
Thanks

[TEXTWinder]

Hi,
this is what I was asking in my post under the importing of .csv spreadsheets, and what another user elsewhere was asking to: could there be a walkthrough of how to prepare the database, and the vital step to opening a .gexf file. I've been trying to understand this all day today, and have read pretty much all on here, but it's still not clear. Thank you!