http://forums.flowingdata.com/ Strength in Numbers en Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:26:42 +0000 http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/cpan-explorer-an-interactive-exploration-of-the-perl-ecosystem-1#post-819 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:34:29 +0000 seb 819@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>CPAN-Explorer is a visualization project aiming at analyzing the relationships between the developers and the packages of the Perl language, known to be organized as the CPAN community (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network). Produced by RTGI Labs and Gephi team, it was initially discussed in a talk at the FPW’09.</p> <p>You can download original graph source files from each subproject page.<br /> Available formats are: GEXF (Gephi graph format), GDF (Guess graph format), SVG, and PDF.<br /> For some of the subprojects, an embedded javascript visualization is also available. For the community graph, a special Flash webpage is available for online exploration.</p> <p>Website: <a href="http://www.cpan-explorer.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cpan-explorer.org/</a><br /> Detailed blog post : <a href="http://gephi.org/2009/cpan-explorer-an-interactive-exploration-of-the-perl-ecosystem/" rel="nofollow">http://gephi.org/2009/cpan-explorer-an-interactive-exploration-of-the-perl-ecosystem/</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gephi/3663258420/" title="CPAN Community map de gephi_org, sur Flickr" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2484/3663258420_6af8866444.jpg" width="500" height="391" alt="CPAN Community map" /></a> </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/large-network-layout-and-visualization#post-643 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:28:38 +0000 tunamaccheese 643@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>Can anyone recommend a software for large-network visualization?</p> <p>I'm looking for something that meets the following requirements:<br /> - runs on Windows XP<br /> - accessible via an API (preferably Python), or at least accepts text-based input files (which I could create using Python)<br /> - can handle large networks (order of thousands of nodes) and provide some kind of visualization (a large graphic file or some kind of zoomable interface).<br /> - it would be nice if you could do some basic customization of the nodes and edges with labels, colors, or shapes.</p> <p>I've heard of IGraph and NetworkX but I cannot get them to run on windows for the life of me. (in the case of IGraph, I can't get cairo installed, and in the case of NetworkX I cannot get pygraphviz installed).</p> <p>Please let me know if you have any suggestions.</p> <p>Thanks,</p> <p>--Jordan </p>