Network graphs can be used to visualize bigrams in text data.
Network graphs are constructed using
- from: the node an edge is coming from
- to: the note an edge is going towards
- weight: A numeric value associated with each edge
March 24, 2021
Network graphs can be used to visualize bigrams in text data.
Network graphs are constructed using
The igraph R package has a function that can convert a tidy data frame into a set of "from", "to" nodes with edges.
> graph_from_data_frame()
Note that this function does not make a plot! This function makes the graph that can be plotted.
The authors discuss polishing the plot with arrows and words.
There is a reference in the book that a plot of a network graph is a visualization of a Markov chain. This model assumes there is only a one step dependence. This is what bigrams look at.
Speech and Language Processing
This is a bit more advanced book.
In Chapter 3 there is a very nice presentation of n-grams
In Chapter 4 there is a very nice presentation of naive Bayes.