Justin Martenstein (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} jmartenstein) wrote,@ 2006-06-17 23:38:00 |
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Visualize
Now that I've upgraded to a better laptop, I'm starting to get interested in complex network visualization again. I have a vision for something similiar to Ben Bederson's zoomable user interface work (see also: informational physics), though I really just want to hack something together for experimentation. I'm surprised no one has taken the "tag cloud" concept and made it interactive. You should be able to move the individual tags around, drag-and-drop, and their movements should give you some indication for how the tags are all related to each other.
The concept in my head is sort of similar to Touchgraph, but I want it to be able to handle large numbers of nodes in a cleaner fashion (this is where the details get fuzzy). But it should be an interesting project, and it gives me an excuse to learn Python.
Now that I've upgraded to a better laptop, I'm starting to get interested in complex network visualization again. I have a vision for something similiar to Ben Bederson's zoomable user interface work (see also: informational physics), though I really just want to hack something together for experimentation. I'm surprised no one has taken the "tag cloud" concept and made it interactive. You should be able to move the individual tags around, drag-and-drop, and their movements should give you some indication for how the tags are all related to each other.
The concept in my head is sort of similar to Touchgraph, but I want it to be able to handle large numbers of nodes in a cleaner fashion (this is where the details get fuzzy). But it should be an interesting project, and it gives me an excuse to learn Python.
