Gephi is an “interactive visualization and exploration platform” for graphs.
From the site:
- Exploratory Data Analysis: intuition-oriented analysis by networks manipulations in real time.
- Link Analysis: revealing the underlying structures of associations between objects, in particular in scale-free networks.
- Social Network Analysis: easy creation of social data connectors to map community organizations and small-world networks.
- Biological Network analysis: representing patterns of biological data.
- Poster creation: scientific work promotion with hi-quality printable maps.
I find the notion of interaction with a graph, or in our case a topic map represented as a graph quite fascinating.
Imagine selecting or even adding properties as the basis for merging and then examining those results in an interactive rather than batch process.
Can “drag-n-drop” topic map authoring be that far away?