Topological Filtering for Visual Data Mining and Analysis of Complex Networks

Abstract: The discovery of small world and scale free properties of many real world networks has revolutionized the way we study, analyze, model and process networks. An important way to analyze these complex networks is to visualize them using graph layout algorithms. Due to their large size and complex connectivity, it is difficult to make deductions from the visual representation of these networks. In this paper, we present a method for interactive analysis of large graphs based on topological filtering, network metrics and visualization. We analyze a number of real world networks and draw interesting conclusions using the proposed method.