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Are there any common reasons why a startup would be interested in graph visualization? There's clearly uses here for visualizing a social network or RDF graph,

Are there any common reasons why a startup would be interested in graph visualization? There's clearly uses here for visualizing a social network or RDF graph, but what else?

wahnfrieden 16y ago
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fish2000 16y ago
A novel answer to that question could be the basis for a startup, in an of its own right, I should think!
dkarl 16y ago
Network topology. Code visualization. State machines. Mind-mapping. Transportation networks. It depends on what kind of data you need to visualize.
digitailor 16y ago
How about everything? Seriously. The graph is one of the best data structures we have for modeling systems and taxonomies. See, for example, Avatar. What enabled the effects in that film, at its very core? A Directed Acyclic Graph.
troels 16y ago
[the brain](http://www.thebrain.com/ http://www.thebrain.com/) rocked 10 years ago, and reimplementing it in a smooth html5 finish would be a serious competitor to the established wiki's.
- zzzmarcus 16y ago
  PersonalBrain does feel a bit clunky in Java and it stinks that it's a desktop-only application (with a not-so-great and expensive Java web version). That having been said, it still rocks. I use it every day. I would love to see competition for it as a collaborative webapp or as a native OS X / iPhone / iPad app.
dhotson 16y ago
I can't give too many details away.. but where I work we've been using graph visualizations and algorithms to investigate and detect fraud. I've open sourced the force directed graph viz part of it in case anyone is interested: http://github.com/dhotson/springy http://github.com/dhotson/springy
devenson 16y ago
Documenting IT servers, services, networks... application dependency mapping. If you can query the graph, you can analyze the impact of changes before you make them. That's exactly what our product does see video: http://pathwaysystems.com/?autoplay=impact http://pathwaysystems.com/?autoplay=impact

Are there any common reasons why a startup would be interested in graph visualization? There's clearly uses here for visualizing a social network or RDF graph, but what else?

wahnfrieden 16y ago

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fish2000 16y ago

A novel answer to that question could be the basis for a startup, in an of its own right, I should think!

dkarl 16y ago

Network topology. Code visualization. State machines. Mind-mapping. Transportation networks. It depends on what kind of data you need to visualize.

digitailor 16y ago

How about everything? Seriously. The graph is one of the best data structures we have for modeling systems and taxonomies. See, for example, Avatar. What enabled the effects in that film, at its very core? A Directed Acyclic Graph.

troels 16y ago

[the brain](http://www.thebrain.com/ http://www.thebrain.com/) rocked 10 years ago, and reimplementing it in a smooth html5 finish would be a serious competitor to the established wiki's.

zzzmarcus 16y ago
PersonalBrain does feel a bit clunky in Java and it stinks that it's a desktop-only application (with a not-so-great and expensive Java web version). That having been said, it still rocks. I use it every day. I would love to see competition for it as a collaborative webapp or as a native OS X / iPhone / iPad app.

dhotson 16y ago

I can't give too many details away.. but where I work we've been using graph visualizations and algorithms to investigate and detect fraud. I've open sourced the force directed graph viz part of it in case anyone is interested: http://github.com/dhotson/springy http://github.com/dhotson/springy

devenson 16y ago

Documenting IT servers, services, networks... application dependency mapping. If you can query the graph, you can analyze the impact of changes before you make them. That's exactly what our product does see video: http://pathwaysystems.com/?autoplay=impact http://pathwaysystems.com/?autoplay=impact