How is a network diagram drawn using the wizards?
Following the wizard instructions will automatically create a basic network diagram. This is the underlying process that LexiURL Searcher conducts. 1) Each pair (A, B) of web site domain names or URLs in your list is converted into a query in the syntax of Yahoo, for all web pages matching URL/site A that link to URL/site B. 2) Each link query created from your list is submitted to Yahoo to get an estimate of the number of URLs matching the query. 3) A graph matrix is constructed from the results of 2) above, with each URL/site having its own node and an arrow from URL/site A to URL/site B included with width w = 10 x (# of links from A to B)/(maximum # of links between any pair of sites/URLs) if there are some links from A to B and the width w is at least 0.1. 4) The network matrix is loaded into SocSciBot Network to be drawn.
