{"id":3010,"date":"2017-11-19T17:24:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T01:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/?p=3010"},"modified":"2017-11-19T17:24:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T01:24:23","slug":"blog-post-7-the-headless-woman-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/2017\/11\/19\/blog-post-7-the-headless-woman-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post 7- The Headless Woman Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For this week\u2019s blog post I made a pretty simple network graph with Google Fusion Tables about The Headless Woman, a short story, by Goncalo M. Tavares. Initially, I wasn\u2019t quite sure what to expect from the story, so I was pretty surprised when I realized it was slightly scary. As I was reading I just got more irked and scared, but it was really interesting because of that very reason.<\/p>\n<p>The story is about a mother who lost her head. She was decapitated by her husband, apparently because \u201cHe wanted more room in bed.\u201d The mother is struggling to find her children, as she is in a labyrinth. She can not see because she does not have her head, so all she can do is use a trail of her blood to have some sort of direction. Eventually, the children find her, but they end up splitting up again to find the mothers head. The story ends with all three boys attempting to find the mothers body again (after the head they find fails to recognize the children). They find the mother again, which then they signal by screaming, however the oldest can not scream. It is a pretty eerie story, but I found the relationships in the story to be particularly interesting.<\/p>\n<p>The story in its entirety only mentions 5 characters. The three sons, the mother and the father. The father was barely mentioned, and the relationship between the mother and the sons seemed pretty straight forward. In creating the diagram, I couldn\u2019t find many ways to make an intricate design, as the relationships were pretty straight forward as to who knew who. The network graph can illuminate plenty of connections in stories and in datasets in general, however, I did notice a lot of limitations to the graph. It&#8217;s really cool to see the strengths of certain relationships as well as seeing who has the most connections, however it is impossible to display the evolution of certain characters\u2019 relationships with each other. Based on events, or circumstances, relationships can change and the network diagram is really hard to adjust to fit these changes. You also truly can never say whose relationships to whom are stronger unless you actually know the relationship. Furthermore, if there is a large dataset, I don\u2019t know if this would be the most efficient way to manage and understand relationships.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these limitations, the network graph is still a very useful and helpful function with numerous modes of helping a data project. I\u2019m really fascinated to see what kind of role the Google Fusion Tables will bring to our final\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1.125rem\">project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3014 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/11\/Screen-Shot-2017-11-19-at-5.03.28-PM-300x223.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/11\/Screen-Shot-2017-11-19-at-5.03.28-PM-300x223.png 300w, http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/11\/Screen-Shot-2017-11-19-at-5.03.28-PM.png 577w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Link for the Network Diagram: https:\/\/fusiontables.google.com\/embedviz?containerId=googft-gviz-canvas&amp;viz=GVIZ&amp;t=GRAPH&amp;gc=true&amp;gd=false&amp;sdb=1&amp;rmax=100000&amp;uiversion=2&amp;q=select+col0%2C+col1+from+1QFNPKR30676vgNrYgRgQRSo_VNN8lL6ZasR-7Z6b&amp;qrs=+where+col0+%3E%3D+&amp;qre=+and+col0+%3C%3D+&amp;qe=&amp;state=%7B%22ps%22%3A%221_0_-7_8_1_v_b_2_-o_-p_3_-t_13_%22%2C%22cx%22%3A-22.78612862509575%2C%22cy%22%3A7.3220995863824285%2C%22sw%22%3A614.5838621689452%2C%22sh%22%3A255.58697900907373%2C%22z%22%3A2.3408064885589512%7D&amp;gco_forceIFrame=true&amp;gco_hasLabelsColumn=true&amp;width=500&amp;height=300<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this week\u2019s blog post I made a pretty simple network graph with Google Fusion Tables about The Headless Woman,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}