If you’re trying to install Gephi and keep getting the error “Cannot find Java 1.8 or higher,” this is apparently a common bug with Gephi. I got around it by installing Java SE Runtime Environment 8 on my computer, and now Gephi seems to be working fine (fingers crossed).
Thank you, Dax.
Piggybacking off this in case it’s useful to anyone else – below are links to two Gephi tutorials that Miriam Posner recommends, along with a link to part of her syllabus containing other visualization options, a helpful glossary, and basic principles.
TUTORIALS
http://www.briansarnacki.com/gephi-tutorial/
http://www.martingrandjean.ch/introduction-to-network-visualization-gephi/
MIRIAM POSNER’S GUIDE
http://miriamposner.com/classes/dh101f16/tutorials-guides/data-visualization/network-analysis/
Thanks to both of you!
And to add to these very helpful notes, you can find gephi plugins here:
https://gephi.org/plugins/#/
Dax — an overdue thanks for the Gephi fix, and to Hannah for the tutorial links 🙂 🙂