code: def json_from_cov_df(df, threshold=.5, gain=2., n=None, indent=1):
      
      nodes, edges = graph_from_cov_df(df=df, threshold=threshold, gain=gain, n=n)
      return json.dumps({'nodes': nodes, 'links': edges}, indent=indent)
docs: Produce a json string describing the graph (list of edges) from a square auto-correlation/covariance matrix
         { "nodes": [{"group": 1, "name": "the"},
                  {"group": 1, "name": "and"},
                  {"group": 1, "name": "our"},
                  {"group": 2, "name": "that"},...
           "links": [{"source": 0, "target": 0, "value": 2.637520131294177},
                     {"source": 0, "target": 1, "value": 1.343999676850537}, ...