Bipartite graph in Gephi

Question

How do you construct a csv for a bipartite graph. I have the following data set:

ID, Source, Target, Weight
1,00ash00,t3_ascto,-1
2,00ash00,t3_asll7,1
3,00ash00,t3_atawm,1
4,00ash00,t3_avosd,1
5,0-0,t3_6vlrz,1
6,0-0,t3_6vmwa,1
7,0-0,t3_6wdiv,1
8,0-0,t3_6wegp,1
9,0-0,t3_6wegz,1
10,00-,t3_ajdu3,-1

Source and Target columns represent the from-to aspect in a bipartite graph. I read somewhere that inorder to generate a graph, you need a node csv file(a mapping of the IDs with nodes) and an edges csv files. So how do i convert the above dataset and use it in these two files?

In case my approach is not right, suggest another approach?

Answer 1

Yes, that seems to be an OK example of CSV "spreadsheets" that gephi can import, except for one thing: it doesn't work with the space before each column name. So the column names should appear as follows in the file:

ID,Source,Target,Weight

Then by creating a new project or using an existing one, and by clicking the "Data Laboratory" button between "Overview" and "Preview", it should be no problem to import the file into a gephi edges table.

Additional observations:

• It's a bipartite graph in that no source is a target and no target is a source.
• If you want to import it as an undirected graph, you can add a "Type" column that has the value "Undirected" for each edge (that is, row).
• Is the source identifier 00- perhaps intended to be 0-0? It's oddly similar.