steve, I don't know if this is relevant, but there was still, when I last looked, no web tool for building family timelines. Lot's of genealogy but no time line software. So, one would enter family events into a form and the software would plot those events in relation to those of other family members and larger social events. It could a data base of time lines of famous people so, for instance, you could find out what Ali Mcgraw was doing on the day you fell in love for the first time. Is this a webappllication version of what you are doing that could be sold for 25 dollars to 50 million people and make you shit rich?
Probably not. Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu) http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe] > [Original Message] > From: Stephen Guerin <step...@sfcomplex.org> > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> > Date: 7/12/2010 4:18:50 PM > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] How do you auto-create a network diagram? > > For opensource graph visualization, you might check out: > http://gephi.org/ > > FWIW, Josh and I have been building up a tool we're internally calling > "EventFlow" that builds up temporal graphs from standard data. Here's > a couple videos that show the tool as we're describing it to our > collaborators in the UK: > http://redfish.com/SFComplex/projects/UKNHSShropshire.html > > The user can input multiple spreadsheets or tables of two types: > entities and events. Entities you can think of as nouns in a system > and might be what actually flows through the system. In the case of a > healthcare the entities might be patients, doctors, or medications. > The events bind the nouns together with a start and end timestamp. In > healthcare, we are using insurance billing data that has a particular > patient mapped to a doctor, clinic, service and medication. We're also > using performance data for the events. > > In education, the entities would be students, teachers, classrooms and > events would be the transcripts binding a student to a teacher, > classroom, subject and performance grade. > > EventFlow is not yet in a shrink-wrapped form but maybe after a couple > more projects with it.... > > -S > > _____________________________________________________________ > step...@sfcomplex.org > (m) 505-216-6226 (o) 505-995-0206 > sfcomplex.org | simtable.com | ambientpixel.com | redfish.com > > On Jul 12, 2010, at 7:29 AM, Tom Johnson wrote: > > > Any FRIAM-ers have insights to this interesting query? > > > > -tom johnson > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Dan T Keating <keati...@washpost.com> > > Date: Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 6:41 AM > > Subject: Re: [NICAR-L] How do you auto-create a network diagram? > > To: nica...@po.missouri.edu > > > > > > > > The data structure described here looks like Semantic Web, an > > attempt to define relationships that will allow creation of > > automatic relationships and links that would not otherwise be > > apparent. We know in math that if a = b and b > c then a > c, but > > seeing that kind of relationship across data at different websites > > is not easy. Once data is in the Resource Descriptor Formt (RDF) > > format > > Object ==> relationship ==> Fact > > like > > Bill ==> lives on ==> Main St > > and > > Main St ==> is in ==> Neverland > > then tools can start to find patterns in the data. There's a db > > query languary for it SPARQL. > > > > I had read some on Semantic Web a couple years ago and seeing the > > data in this pattern made me wonder if there are more useful tools > > for digesting it. But zipping around the (old fashioned, non- > > semantic) web has not revealed much more than theoretical > > discussions. Maybe someone has put out a good tool for representing > > data prepared in this format, but I'm not seeing it right now. > > > > The most comprensible links I'm seeing right now are from Joshua > > Tauberer, the guy behind govtrack.us. His blogs on the topic are at > > http://razor.occams.info/blog/category/semantic-web/ > > _________________________________ > > Dan Keating > > Graphics Editor/Data, The Washington Post > > (202) 334-5047, keati...@washpost.com > > > > > > > > "Skelton, Chad (Vancouver Sun)" <cskel...@vancouversun.com> > > 07/09/2010 06:29 PM > > > > Please respond to > > Discussion Forum <nica...@po.missouri.edu> > > > > To > > nica...@po.missouri.edu > > cc > > Subject > > [NICAR-L] How do you auto-create a network diagram? > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > So a colleague of mine has some data showing the inter-locking > > relationships between various people and companies. The data is set > > up in a spreadsheet kind of like this > > > > Name Relationship To > > John Smith Works For Tim Jones > > Tim Jones Donated Money to ABC Inc. > > ABC Inc. Employs John > > Smith > > ABC Inc. Hired > > John Smith > > > > She'll looking for a way to map all these relationships to try to > > get a sense of how these spheres of influence overlap. I know I've > > seen network diagrams like this before -- different points with > > lines between them, with text along the lines showing the > > relationship between the two points. I even remember seeing them in > > a course I took that dealt with RDFa syntax. I'm assuming there must > > be tools out there that can create simple diagrams from data kind of > > like my colleague's. > > > > Any tips on what tools we could use to make this work? Those that > > are free and/or web based would be best. :) Thanks! > > > > > > Chad Skelton, Reporter > > The Vancouver Sun > > cskel...@vancouversun.com > > Phone: 604-605-2892 > > Fax: 604-605-2323 > > > > Check out my blogs: > > vancouversun.com/parenting/ > > vancouversun.com/papertrail/ > > > > Follow me at twitter.com/chadskelton and twitter.com/curiousdad > > > > ==================================================================== > > To unsubscribe from NICAR-L, please send "unsubscribe NICAR-L" in > > the body of an e-mail message to "lists...@lists.missouri.edu". > > Please e-mail listmas...@ire.org if you need help or have questions. > > ==================================================================== > > > > ==================================================================== > > To unsubscribe from NICAR-L, please send "unsubscribe NICAR-L" in > > the body of an e-mail message to "lists...@lists.missouri.edu". > > Please e-mail listmas...@ire.org if you need help or have questions. > > ==================================================================== > > > > > > > > > > -- > > ========================================== > > J. 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