I chose to create my fusion table on the story ‘The Headless Woman’. This was an intriguing story about a mother and her three sons, searching for the mothers head.
It involved the three sons splitting up and searching for the head individually. I thought that this graph helps connect the family, however if I were to make the graph again I would try and find a way to connect the brothers together as I thought that by doing that it would be helpful to see the connections there.
The oldest son was the most helpful as he found the head, although he didn’t ‘scream’ which is why you are left wondering if he is truly meant to be helping the mother or not. The limitations of the graph would have to be that it is difficult / I’m not sure if possible that you can show how the different characters got along (the strength of their bonds) throughout the whole story. As well as this, you would have to be able to back up the connections with information about why some are stronger than others. Overall, I thought this was a cool skill to learn as it is easy to make a user friendly table.
I ran into the same problems with limitations of the network graph when creating mine – it’s difficult to display the true nature of someones relationship when they are represented as just nodes and graphs! I think the network graph you created is really representative of a the social unit of a family, with the mom/parent at the middle and the children each being a branch off of that central node. Good job!