Editors’ Summary: This paper, focusing on the Round Table meetings in Poland during the late 1980s, meetings that hoped to address political challenges in Communist Poland. Using network analysis, the authors present the considerations behind creating network data visualizations. The metadata that the authors consider, such as affiliations, personal biography, and others, are especially helpful for other DH scholars who hope to create network graphs to visualize social communities and connections. Network visualizations are one way to represent data, and this post provides useful best practices.
Editors’ Choice: Pre-revolution network connections of the 1989 Polish Round Table participants