[Air-L] Drawing networks tools

[Mike Bennett]

InfoVis Cyberinfrastructure has a good list of visualisation  
software, toolkits and techniques:
    http://iv.slis.indiana.edu/sw

Unfortunately many of the vis toolkits require custom programming to  
create the desired visualisations. If you're happy to do some  
development then Processing (http://www.processing.org) and GraphViz  
(http://www.graphviz.org) are worth considering.

With Processing your visualisation can be easily embedded in a  
website (via a Java applet).

I haven't used SoNIA (Social Network Image Animator) but it also may  
be an option:
   http://www.stanford.edu/group/sonia

- Mike

On 20 Feb 2008, at 09:47, Ismael Peña-López wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> I'm trying to find a tool to draw networks and relationships  
> between several
> agents. BUT, not only want I to represent/draw it, but to be able  
> to browse
> it, move it..., USE it as a visualization tool.
>
> I'm thinking in something the like of MindRaider
> (http://mindraider.sourceforge.net/), but simpler and, if possible,
> exportable to flash, so it can be embedded in websites and/or  
> uploaded to a
> web server so it can be accessed and updated remotely. For those not
> familiar with MindRaider, Google TouchGraph is a good approach,  
> though I do
> not want it to set up website relationships.
>
> The optimum to me would be Freemind (http:// 
> freemind.sourceforge.net/) with
> some of MindRaider features (i.e. breaking the tree structure of  
> Freemind).
>
> Any ideas?
>
> BTW, this is what I've already explored
> http://ictlogy.net/wiki/index.php?title=Data_Visualization
> so if you wanted to suggest one of those... well, you needn't ;))

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Mike Bennett
PhD Candidate

Imaging, Visualisation and Graphics Lab
Systems Research Group, University College Dublin, Ireland

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