The below function can be utilized to play a tree graph (cascade) in "order" by creating a hierarchical layout.
```python
def hierarchy_pos(G, root=None, width=1., vert_gap = 0.2, vert_loc = 0, xcenter = 0.5):
'''
From Joel's answer at https://stackoverflow.com/a/29597209/2966723
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike
If the graph is a tree this will return the positions to plot this in a
hierarchical layout.
G: the graph (must be a tree)
root: the root node of current branch
- if the tree is directed and this is not given,
the root will be found and used
- if the tree is directed and this is given, then
the positions will be just for the descendants of this node.
- if the tree is undirected and not given,
then a random choice will be used.
width: horizontal space allocated for this branch - avoids overlap with other branches
vert_gap: gap between levels of hierarchy
vert_loc: vertical location of root
xcenter: horizontal location of root
'''
if not nx.is_tree(G):
raise TypeError('cannot use hierarchy_pos on a graph that is not a tree')
if root is None:
if isinstance(G, nx.DiGraph):
root = next(iter(nx.topological_sort(G))) #allows back compatibility with nx version 1.11
else:
root = random.choice(list(G.nodes))
def _hierarchy_pos(G, root, width=1., vert_gap = 0.2, vert_loc = 0, xcenter = 0.5, pos = None, parent = None):
'''
see hierarchy_pos docstring for most arguments
pos: a dict saying where all nodes go if they have been assigned
parent: parent of this branch. - only affects it if non-directed
'''
if pos is None:
pos = {root:(xcenter,vert_loc)}
else:
pos[root] = (xcenter, vert_loc)
children = list(G.neighbors(root))
if not isinstance(G, nx.DiGraph) and parent is not None:
children.remove(parent)
if len(children)!=0:
dx = width/len(children)
nextx = xcenter - width/2 - dx/2
for child in children:
nextx += dx
pos = _hierarchy_pos(G,child, width = dx, vert_gap = vert_gap,
vert_loc = vert_loc-vert_gap, xcenter=nextx,
pos=pos, parent = root)
return pos
return _hierarchy_pos(G, root, width, vert_gap, vert_loc, xcenter)
```
Then you can use it in the following way.
```python
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import networkx as nx
G=nx.Graph()
G.add_edges_from([(1,2), (1,3), (1,4), (2,5), (2,6), (2,7), (3,8), (3,9), (4,10),
(5,11), (5,12), (6,13)])
pos = hierarchy_pos(G,1)
nx.draw(G, pos=pos, with_labels=True)
```
This will create the below figure.
![[programming_hierarchicalPlot.png]]
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