networkx - How to specify x- and y-coordinates in plotly network graph?

Question

I would like to create a network diagram in which I can specify the location of the nodes. The diagram would be with roughly 30 nodes and will have different communities resulting in something like this:

Example for network graph

Is there a way to specify x- and y-coordinates in plotly network graphs?

I found a similar approach for Sankey diagrams with ploty and I was wondering if there is a way to set the coordinates so I can structure the network diagram: Plotly: How to set node positions in a Sankey Diagram?

Thank you

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66049187/how-to-specify-x-and-y-coordinates-in-plotly-network-graph

Answer 1

Plotly does not directly support network graphs. Thus a Graph styled plot usually consists of multiple Scatter plots containing nodes and edges. Maybe habe a look at this Tutorial Atricle. You can explicitly set the coordinates of the nodes, in the tutorial networkx is used. To set node positions in networkx see here.