The Dataverse Network Project

There are two ways in which you can subset network data. First, you can run a manual query, and build a query of specific values for edge or vertex data with which to subset the data. Or, you can select from among three automatically generated queries with which to subset the data:

• Largest graph - Subset the <nth> largest connected component of the network. That is, the largest group of nodes that can reach one another by walking across edges.
• Biconnected graph - Subset the <nth> largest biconnected component of the network. That is, generate the subgraph of the network that remains connected if any one of the vertices in the subgraph are removed.
• Neighborhood - Subset the <nth> neighborhood of the selected vertices. That is, generate a subgraph of the original network composed of all vertices that are positioned at most <n> steps away from the currently selected vertices in the original network, plus all of the edges that connect them.

You also can successively subset data to isolate specific values progressively.

Continue to the next topics for detailed information about subsetting a network data set.