Another Word For It Patrick Durusau on Topic Maps and Semantic Diversity

March 28, 2012

Visualizing a set of Hiveplots with Neo4j

Filed under: Gremlin,Hive Plots,Neo4j — Patrick Durusau @ 4:21 pm

Visualizing a set of Hiveplots with Neo4j by Max De Marzi.

Max writes:

If you want to learn more about Hive Plots, take a look at his website and this presentation (it is quite large at 20 MB). I cannot do it justice in this short blog post, and in all honestly haven’t had the time to study it properly.

Today I just want to give you a little taste of Hiveplots. I am going to visualize the github graphs of nine languages you might not have heard of: Boo, Dylan, Factor, Gosu, Mirah, Nemerle, Nu, Parrot, Self. I’m not going to show you how to create the graph this time, because this is real data we are using. You can take a look at it on the data folder in github.

The graph is basically: (Language)–(Repository)–(User). There are two relationships between Repository and User, wrote and forked.

Hive plots are an effort by Martin Krzywinski to enable viewers of a graph visualization to distinguish between two or more graphs and to recognize key features of those graphs. His website is: http://www.hiveplot.com/.

December 26, 2011

Hive Plots

Filed under: Hive Plots,Networks,Visualization — Patrick Durusau @ 8:24 pm

Hive Plots

From the website:

Hive plots — for the impatient

The hive plot is a rational visualization method for drawing networks. Nodes are mapped to and positioned on radially distributed linear axes — this mapping is based on network structural properties. Edges are drawn as curved links. Simple and interpretable.

The purpose of the hive plot is to establish a new baseline for visualization of large networks — a method that is both general and tunable and useful as a starting point in visually exploring network structure.

You will really have to visit the link to properly experience hive plots. No description on my part would really be adequate.

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