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July 25, 2011

Visualizing NetworkX graphs in the browser using D3

Filed under: Graphs,Networks,Visualization — Patrick Durusau @ 6:40 pm

Visualizing NetworkX graphs in the browser using D3 by Drew Conway.

From the post:

During one of our impromptu sprints at SciPy 2011, the NetworkX team decided it would be nice to add the ability to export networks for visualization with the D3 JavaScript library. This would allow people to post their visualizations online very easily. Mike Bostock, the creator and maintainer of D3, also has a wonderful example of how to render a network using a force-directed layout in the D3 examples gallery.

So, we decided to insert a large portion of Mike’s code into the development version of NetworkX in order to allow people to quickly export networks to JSON and visualize them in the browser. Unfortunately, I have not had the chance to write any tests for this code, so it is only available in my fork of the main NetworkX repository on Github. But, if you clone this repository and install it you will have the new features (along with an additional example file for building networks for web APIs in NX).

You have to see the visualization in the post to get the full impact. You won’t be disappointed!

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