For this week’s blogging assignment I chose to read the essay, “Please Tim Tickle Lana” from Granta’s magazine themed “Do You Remember.” The story is about the author, Colin McAdam, and his interest in studying chimpanzees and how this study has affected his life. He mentions many different characters throughout the essay and although he does not meet most of the people he talks about, they all have something to do with his memory.
I first wrote down all of the characters that Colin mentions throughout the essay and compiled them into a list: This became my character list. I then proceeded to create my edge list, by choosing to connect people based on their interactions with each other as told by Colin McAdam, our narrator. Below is a screenshot of my edge list.
Then, using Google Fusion Tables, I created a network graph that very clearly shows how Colin in the central figure in the story. 
This is not new information, however the chart shows how central he is, and how close all the other relationships are outside of him. We see that Colin is a very central player, but this is his memory, therefore we don’t actually learn any new information about his relationship to the other characters. We see that some of the people Colin are connected to are actually connected to others through the memory he has of them, but unfortunately, it does not tell us anymore information about their relationship.