I’ve plotted several word association graphs for this New York Times article (1st paragraph) using R and the igraph library. #1, random method #2, circle method #3, sphere method #4, spring method #5, fruchterman-reingold method # 6, kamada-kawai method #7, graphopt method The red vertices mark cliques. Here’s the (rough) R code for plotting such

Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).