Given a complex system under study, one natural goal is to create a network-based representation of the system and to present that representation in the form of a visual image. The process by which such images are produced involves a number of distinct steps, with important decisions to be made along the way, and in fact is not unlike the production of cartographic maps. In this chapter, we address the topic of ‘mapping’ networks.
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Kolaczyk, E.D. (2009). Mapping Networks. In: Statistical Analysis of Network Data. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-88146-1_3
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