Any FRIAM-ers have insights to this interesting query?
-tom johnson
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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
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I've only read one book about it, but I think that that is, more or
less, exactly what PROLOG is for.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolog
Intro to prolog:
http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~hzhang/c123/LectureA.pdf
Google Docs Quick View: http://bit.ly/b33CcY
~~James
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:29 AM,
Tom,
There are two aspects to this...
1. Data analysis, filtering, selection. Note that there are hard computational
limits that seem to creep up all over the place whenever you get to exploring
these kinds of network relationships --many of them NP, i.e. not practically
solvable except
On 7/12/10 11:39 AM, Miles Parker wrote:
There are two aspects to this...
At least three -- data acquisition will probably take as much time as
the smartypants stuff unless someone is giving you clean data to begin
with. Getting well-formed tree structures or proposition lists (e.g.
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
The simplest and most accessible tool for non-programmers to create a network
diagram is probably NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/), which is a free
plug-in to Excel 2007. I've just started playing around with this and it is
pretty neat. What's really nice about it is that it works off of
On Jul 12, 2010, at 2:18 PM, Brent Auble wrote:
A couple of free web-based options are Many Eyes
(http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/), which definitely does network
diagrams (although I'm not sure how pretty they are), and Tableau Public
(http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/),
Miles Parker wrote:
On the subject of data analysis, I should mention KNIME --
see: http://www.knime.org/introduction/screenshots. It's really easy
to setup data analytics like workflows.
This looks a lot like the popular commercial package Pipeline Pilot from
Accelrys.
On Jul 12, 2010, at
