Data Visulalization in Tableau - Showing social media activity as a network diagram

The below network diagram has twitter handles as vertices (the dots in the network) and the individual tweets as edges (the lines) between the sender and a recipient (@mention or reply).

References:

• http://www.edupristine.com/blog/network-diagram-in-tableau
• http://vizwiz.blogspot.in/2012/08/tableau-tip-create-hub-spoke-diagrams.html
• http://kb.tableau.com/articles/knowledgebase/using-path-shelf-pattern-analysis
• In Chaos, Clarity – Social Network Diagrams in Tableau

Data collected from Twitter using Excel Add-on NodeXL:

• https://blogs.princeton.edu/etc/2013/03/26/creating-network-graphs-inexcel/
• http://nodexl.codeplex.com/