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🎩 Numbers as text: maths mystery of 4 with NetworkX, yFiles & yEd in Jupyter

❔ About

A few weeks ago I felt on this strange and inspiring tweet from @Cliff Pickover:

... and felt very curious about that, reminding me a bit about the Collatz conjecture I already explored with datascience tools like yEd and Gephi:

Then, more recently I also felt on this really cool news from yWorks:

So I decided to give a try to work on both topics within a single Notebook, directly on Kaggle so anyone can play with generated data.

This post is all about that exploration.. first with NetworkX :

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...then with yFiles.

🎯 What you'll learn

In this post, you'll learn a bit about some mathematical curiosity, how to package knowledgegraph data... and the various ways to visualize and interact with it.

🍿 Demo

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πŸ”­ Further

  1. Bookmark & follow this article as more dataviz contents are about to come
  2. Take your seat for NODES24 to learn more about "Advanced Graph Visualizations in Jupyter Notebooks":

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