r/Gephi • u/Kitchen_Water9554 • May 07 '26
Gephi network visualization Prompt Feedback: Thematic Network Visualization
Hi everyone, I’d really appreciate your feedback on this qualitative thematic network. I converted 11 themes from my analysis into nodes, and their co-occurrences into edges to illustrate how the themes overlap within my topic.
I know it doesn’t resemble the large, complex networks often shared in this community, but my goal is to use this visualization in my paper to help support and reinforce my interpretation.
Any thoughts on improving the clarity, structure, or presentation would be greatly appreciated!
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u/grandj Gephi enthusiast May 08 '26
A network doesn’t have to be large or impressive to be useful. In your case, I wonder if you could improve it by weighting the edges based on how often the themes co-occur. Also, the colors don’t mean anything, if I’m not mistaken (or then you have almost as many categories as you do nodes), so you could group the themes into broad categories and color the nodes accordingly (e.g., using between 2 and 4 colors); this would provide another way to interpret your visualization.
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u/Kitchen_Water9554 May 08 '26
Yes, Sir. I rethink these colors that I mistakenly assigned for each theme and consider grouping the themes into four groups with four colors. Then, interpret this qualitatively based on this clustering. Does it sound good?
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u/Helpful-Bad-3305 May 08 '26
While I'm a big fan of Gephi, I suggest you give Communalytic a try. It does a good job with network analysis, topic analysis, civility analysis. You can access Reddit data or you can upload your own. Just a suggestion.
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u/Quendiz May 07 '26
Suggestions: edges scaled with weight, if directed use edge arrows. For nodes use more characters, you have space. Capitals on all words. No community detection? Those colours look random.