Hsun-Yi Hsieh
A network is composed of nodes and edges. With information on nodes and edges, we can compute various properties of a network.
However, there are times that we do not know whethere there is an edge between two nodes. All we can do is to generate many networks and test which one makes the most sense to a special occasion.
I create this Shiny APP for users to generate as many networks as they would like based on the 'distance' between two nodes.
The Shiny APP uses the spatial data of an ant species as an example. Each node on the plot is an ant nest. It has its coordinate on the plot. Each node is seperate from another with a specific distance.
The user can user the slider to set up the 'critical distance', measured in meter, to generate a network. Two nests belong to the same compartment if their distance is less than this 'critical distance'. They should be signified with the same color on the plot.
It is what I have done so far. The future work includes the computation of network properties, such as various centralities.