What's your displayer? And what formats does it use?

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org>wrote:

> Yeah, I hear you.  I've actually just modeled it like our VectorWriter and
> it will be pluggable.  I'm likely just going to do CSV and GML to start (the
> latter being XML)  Maybe we need YAGF (yet another graph format)?
>
> I used to do a lot of NLP processing and output XML and always felt like
> what I was doing should have been called NLF -- Natural Language Formatting
> -- nothing like XML to take 1KB of text, process it through an NLP engine
> and turn it into 20 MBs of XML.  Glory days.
>
> On Sep 16, 2011, at 4:44 PM, Jake Mannix wrote:
>
> > Can I vote for whichever one isn't based on XML? :)
> >
> > I really can't imagine encoding a 10-billion node graph in XML.  Or
> rather,
> > I can, and I'm skeeeeeered.
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org
> >wrote:
> >
> >> I'm going to write a converter to dump out clusters and their points to
> a
> >> graph structure so they can be displayed.
> >>
> >> Gephi (and others) supports a myriad of formats:
> >> http://gephi.org/users/supported-graph-formats/
> >>
> >> * GEXF
> >>
> >> * GDF
> >>
> >> * GML
> >>
> >> * GraphML
> >>
> >> * Pajek NET
> >>
> >> * GraphViz DOT
> >>
> >> * CSV
> >>
> >> * UCINET DL
> >>
> >> * Tulip TPL
> >>
> >> * Netdraw VNA
> >>
> >> * Spreadsheet
> >>
> >> Anyone have strong opinions on a format?  CSV is the simplest,
> obviously,
> >> but doesn't support attributes like GraphML.  I'm inclined to use
> GraphML or
> >> CSV.
> >>
> >> -Grant
>
> --------------------------------------------
> Grant Ingersoll
> http://www.lucidimagination.com
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>
>


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