Comments on: Visualizing a hierarchical glossary http://well-formed-data.net/archives/136/visualizing-a-hierarchical-glossary Moritz Stefaner / Visualization Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:10:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Hierarchical Glossary as Interactive Network Graphs | FlowingData http://well-formed-data.net/archives/136/visualizing-a-hierarchical-glossary#comment-1752 Hierarchical Glossary as Interactive Network Graphs | FlowingData Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:42:46 +0000 http://well-formed-data.net/?p=136#comment-1752 [...] Moritz has been working on visualization of a hierarchical glossary carefully named "Glossary Visualization" versions 2-5. Not sure where version 1 is. Being a network graph, I can see this getting chaotic when there are more words (or categories) involved, but then again, maybe that's all the words. In either case, it beats browsing through words in a dictionary; although, these prototypes don't include definitions yet. [...] […] Moritz has been working on visualization of a hierarchical glossary carefully named “Glossary Visualization” versions 2-5. Not sure where version 1 is. Being a network graph, I can see this getting chaotic when there are more words (or categories) involved, but then again, maybe that’s all the words. In either case, it beats browsing through words in a dictionary; although, these prototypes don’t include definitions yet. […]

]]> By: Moritz Stefaner http://well-formed-data.net/archives/136/visualizing-a-hierarchical-glossary#comment-1744 Moritz Stefaner Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:23:32 +0000 http://well-formed-data.net/?p=136#comment-1744 Yes, sorry, forgot to mention this: all of these are based on the <a href="http://flare.prefuse.org" rel="nofollow">flare toolkit</a>. I used the <strong>NodeLinkTreeLayout</strong> algorithm, according to the flare docs "that of Christoph Buchheim, Michael Jünger, and Sebastian Leipert from their research paper <a href="http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/buchheim02improving.html" rel="nofollow">Improving Walker's Algorithm to Run in Linear Time</a>, Graph Drawing 2002. and the <strong>RadialTreeLayout</strong>, which, again according to the flare docs, "an adaptation of a technique by Ka-Ping Yee, Danyel Fisher, Rachna Dhamija, and Marti Hearst, published in the paper <a href="http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/448292.html" rel="nofollow">Animated Exploration of Dynamic Graphs with Radial Layout</a>, InfoVis 2001. But as I said, details follow. But proper credit should always be included, yes :) Yes, sorry, forgot to mention this: all of these are based on the flare toolkit.

I used the NodeLinkTreeLayout algorithm, according to the flare docs “that of Christoph Buchheim, Michael Jünger, and Sebastian Leipert from their research paper Improving Walker’s Algorithm to Run in Linear Time, Graph Drawing 2002.

and the RadialTreeLayout, which, again according to the flare docs, “an adaptation of a technique by Ka-Ping Yee, Danyel Fisher, Rachna Dhamija, and Marti Hearst, published in the paper Animated Exploration of Dynamic Graphs with Radial Layout, InfoVis 2001.

But as I said, details follow. But proper credit should always be included, yes :)

]]> By: Miguel http://well-formed-data.net/archives/136/visualizing-a-hierarchical-glossary#comment-1743 Miguel Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:42:51 +0000 http://well-formed-data.net/?p=136#comment-1743 Very beautiful interfaces. Are these developed using any visualization library (e.g. Flare)? Very beautiful interfaces. Are these developed using any visualization library (e.g. Flare)?

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