This bipartite force-directed network graph shows participants in university miscellanies from the 1650s and 1660s. Dark green nodes represent texts published before 1660, while light green nodes represent those published after. The rest of the nodes are for individual contributors (mouseover to see names, scroll or double-click to zoom, click a node to see ego networks). The dark blue nodes show political "shapeshifters" who published in miscellanies both before and after the Restoration. Notice that the graph separates not by political affiliation (Royalist and Republican) but by university affiliation (Oxford and Cambridge).
This visualization is based on a demo from Mike Bostock, on force-directed graphs. Additionally it handles search and a dropdown menu, which allows you to switch between different measures of centrality (degree, betweenness, and closeness) without reloading the graph. (All centrality calculations were made using the bipartite algorithms in Python's NetworkX.)