Name: Anonymous 2018-02-09 8:45
let's say I have a hypertext-ish dataset, and I want to represent it as a graph for visualization and exploration. how would I go about doing this? I was thinking of Neo4j and its browser but I don't want to setup a database server just for that, I'd rather generate a file and visualize it with something. I was thinking of Gephi or GUESS becuase I can massage this dataset into different graph formats or just use a library like NetworkX to generate something readable by those, but which of those formats would be the best? am I picking the right tools for the job?
a few details about the dataset: it's not huge, about 10k vertices. it's directed, and median vertice has probably about 3 or 4 edges coming from it (but there will be outliers with more). the thing is that as I said it's hypertextish and many of those nodes are associated with at least a few paragraphs of UTF-8. I want to put this text as node attribute (IIRC most graph formats support them), but displaying this will obviously be problematic. ideally, I'd want to show just the text associated with a node that the user has selected because if nothing is displayed then it's kinda pointless, and if everything is displayed then it'll be a huge unreadable mess (which is also pointless).
what's your're are opinion on that? inb4 sexprs or prolog. I considered it but I want an interactively explorable visual representation so I don't think it's te right choice.
a few details about the dataset: it's not huge, about 10k vertices. it's directed, and median vertice has probably about 3 or 4 edges coming from it (but there will be outliers with more). the thing is that as I said it's hypertextish and many of those nodes are associated with at least a few paragraphs of UTF-8. I want to put this text as node attribute (IIRC most graph formats support them), but displaying this will obviously be problematic. ideally, I'd want to show just the text associated with a node that the user has selected because if nothing is displayed then it's kinda pointless, and if everything is displayed then it'll be a huge unreadable mess (which is also pointless).
what's your're are opinion on that? inb4 sexprs or prolog. I considered it but I want an interactively explorable visual representation so I don't think it's te right choice.