I want to illustrate the network graph of a person. The idea is that the network consists of 3 types of people, therefore there are 3 kinds of color and face. The persona is one of the types, so its circle is largest and in the center. The sizes of the circles represent the importance of that person to the persona. So the first level circles is 50% smaller than the center circle, and the second level is 50% smaller than the first level circles.
Somehow I don’t feel the graph is well-proportioned. Maybe the center circle is too large? Would moving the notes further help?
Overall, is there any thing that you feel like can be improved as well?
Here is the SVG file
Answer
Graph balancing is hard, and any tips that you get for the above graph might not apply anymore if you modify some connections.
There are dedicated tools for this task, e.g. Graphviz.
You could give ids to your nodes: 
and simply list every connection:
graph G {
1 -- 2
1 -- 4
2 -- 3
2 -- 5
2 -- 6
3 -- 8
4 -- 5
4 -- 11
5 -- 6
5 -- 9
6 -- 7
6 -- 9
6 -- 10
6 -- 12
7 -- 8
8 -- 10
8 -- 13
9 -- 11
9 -- 12
10 -- 13
11 -- 12
12 -- 13
}
You can also specify the size, the labels and the colors. Note that the positions are not specified anywhere:
graph G {
// Graph layout
overlap=scalexy;
sep="+0.1";
// Node sizes
node[shape=circle];
node[width=1.5];
6[fontcolor="dodgerblue4"];
node[width=0.8];
1;
2[fontcolor="darkseagreen4"];
5[fontcolor="dodgerblue4"];
9[fontcolor="dodgerblue4"];
10[fontcolor="dodgerblue4"];
12[fontcolor="darkseagreen4"];
13
node[width=0.2];
// Connections
1 -- 2
1 -- 4
2 -- 3
2 -- 5
2 -- 6
3 -- 8
4 -- 5
4 -- 11
5 -- 6
5 -- 9
6 -- 7
6 -- 9
6 -- 10
6 -- 12
7 -- 8
8 -- 10
8 -- 13
9 -- 11
9 -- 12
10 -- 13
11 -- 12
12 -- 13
// Colors
4[fontcolor="darkseagreen4"];
8[fontcolor="darkseagreen4"];
1[fontcolor="gold2"];
3[fontcolor="gold2"];
7[fontcolor="gold2"];
11[fontcolor="gold2"];
13[fontcolor="gold2"];
}
There are different balancing algorithms. neato gives results that are similar to your example:
It would also work fine with hundreds of nodes. You can try it with this online-editor, and play with the sizes and connections.
You can also insert images inside nodes and output png or svg files.
Attribution
Source : Link , Question Author : Ooker , Answer Author : Eric Duminil
