Large-scale RDF Graph Visualization Tools AI3 Assembles 26 Candidate Tools The pending UMBEL subject concept “backbone” ontology will involve literally thousands of concepts. In order to manage and view such a large structure, a concerted effort to find suitable graph visualization software was mounted. A subsequent post will present the surprise winner of our evaluation. Starting Resources See Various Example Visualizations For grins, you may also like to see various example visualizations, most with a large-graph bent: Software Options Here is the listing of 26 candidate graph visualization programs assembled to date: Cytoscape – this tool, based on GINY and Piccolo (see below), is under active use by the bioinformatics community and highly recommended by Bio2RDF.org GINY implements a very innovative system for sub-graphing and allows for stunning visuals. headline: Large-scale RDF Graph Visualization Tools alternativeHeadline: author: Mike Bergman image: description: articleBody: see above
Mapping Social Networks The growth of social networks such as Facebook and MySpace has introduced the idea of the 'social graph' into common parlance. the social graph is Watch this short video describing the proof of concept Vizter social network browser visualisation: Vizter explanatory video. How does vizter allow you to identify friends you have in common with other people? How does vizter help the user identify possible communities in the social graph? If you have a Facebook account, there are several tools that you can use to visualise your friends network on there (requires adding the visulisation as a Facebook application). Touchgraph frinds'n'photos browser;Nexus social graph browser;FriendwheelFacebook Mutual Friend Network Visualization in FlashFriends visulisation in Many Eyes: this application will mine your friends network and produce a data output that will let you visualise your friends network using the Many Eyes network visualisation tool. There are a couple of things to note about this graph.
Hive Plots - Linear Layout for Network Visualization - Visually Interpreting Network Structure and Content Made Possible Vizster: Visualizing Online Social Networks VizsterVisualizing Online Social Networks Jeffrey Heer – jheer@cs.berkeley.edu Professor Marti Hearst InfoSys 247 – Information Visualization University of California, Berkeley Spring Semester, 2004 Vizster is an interactive visualization tool for online social networks, allowing exploration of the community structure of social networking services such as friendster.com [4], tribe.net [12], and orkut [10]. Vizster provides a visualization of such services, providing an interactive sociogram for exploring the links between network members. Vizster currently limits itself to ego-centric social networks, or network views centered on a single individual and her direct linkages. The social network data being visualized is the structure and content of friendster.com [4], the most popular online social networking service. In addition to friendship linkage, the database contains the profile data for each crawled user. The basic Vizster visualization is shown below in Figure 1. Figure 6. 1.
Data Visualization Software | ADVIZOR Solutions Interactive Infographic with SVG and CSS Animations Learn how to build an interactive animated infographic using SVG, CSS and JavaScript. View demo Download source One of the less talked about features of newer browsers is increasing support for the SVG file format. But one of the really cool things that some developers do not realize is that SVG is built on the XML specification, which at the end of the day means that its plain old markup, and can be worked with in a similar manner to HTML. With the right techniques and modern browser support, developers can now produce some pretty impressive animations, effects and interactions using SVG. Preparing an SVG file There are tons of ways to create SVG graphics, and while it is possible to do some SVG coding “by hand”, for more complex graphics we will want to have some type of vector editing software that can export as SVG. Whatever software you choose, it is essential to have the ability to group objects together, and be able to name those groups (assign the id attribute). The HTML The CSS
The 15 best tools for data visualisation | Design tools It's often said that data is the new world currency, and the web is the exchange bureau through which it's traded. As consumers, we're positively swimming in data; it's everywhere from labels on food packaging design to World Health Organisation reports. As a result, for the designer it's becoming increasingly difficult to present data in a way that stands out from the mass of competing data streams. Get Adobe Creative Cloud One of the best ways to get your message across is to use a visualization to quickly draw attention to the key messages, and by presenting data visually it's also possible to uncover surprising patterns and observations that wouldn't be apparent from looking at stats alone. As author, data journalist and information designer David McCandless said in his TED talk: "By visualizing information, we turn it into a landscape that you can explore with your eyes, a sort of information map. There are many different ways of telling a story, but everything starts with an idea.
15 Effective Tools for Visual Knowledge Management Since I started my quest a few years ago searching for the ultimate knowledge management tool, I’ve discovered a number of interesting applications that help people efficiently organize information. There certainly is no shortage of solutions for this problem domain. Many tools exist that offer the ability to discover, save, organize, search, and retrieve information. However, I’ve noticed a trend in recent years, and some newer applications are focusing more on the visual representation and relationship of knowledge. 15. Link: Platforms: Win, Mac, Linux Cost: Free (Open Source) DeepaMehta is a “networked semantic desktop” that replaces the traditional computer desktop. 14. Link: Platforms: Mac Cost: $179 Tinderbox stores and organizes your notes, plans, and ideas. 13. Link: Platforms: Win, Mac, Linux Cost: Free (Open Source) 12. eyePlorer Link: Platforms: Web Cost: Free