visualize-network

Visualize a Network

Style and lay out the live graph in place. The goal is a map where real structure is visible, hubs are legible, edges are informative but quiet, and nothing is accidentally invisible.

Follow the gephi skill's rules throughout; this workflow repeats only the ones it is most likely to break. Read ../gephi/references/layout-guide.md for layout selection and its symptom-to-fix table. Read ../gephi/references/reading-network-maps.md for the caption and interpretation discipline.

Rules this workflow must keep

• Session start. Start with gephi_health_check. Then check which workspace is open (gephi_list_workspaces) and whether a filter is active (filter_active in replies): a filter from an earlier conversation stays on, and exports and checks then see only what it shows.
• Stability. Run gephi_community_stability before naming, captioning, or colouring by groups, and say how stable they are.
• Palette. On a light background, leave colors unset: the plugin gives the largest group the first of eight colours validated for readability, the next largest the second, and so on, in an order that keeps the five largest groups distinguishable wherever they touch, even for colour-blind readers; past five groups, label the groups as well. On a dark background, pass the dark-surface palette. Colour must never be the only way to tell groups apart: label the largest nodes or the groups. Dark-surface palette, keyed largest group first: {"0":[57,135,229],"1":[201,133,0],"2":[0,131,0],"3":[213,81,129],"4":[144,133,233],"5":[230,103,103],"6":[25,158,112],"7":[217,89,38]}
• Edges. On a light background, edges use {"edge.color": "#D0D0D0", "edge.opacity": 90, "edge.thickness": 1.0, "edge.curved": false}. Label settings change labels only; they never reset edge values.
• Caption and legend. Every export ships with a copy-ready caption (data, layout and settings, what size and colour encode, what the map does and does not show) and, when colour encodes groups, a legend (gephi_export_legend).