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Visualizing Process Execution

112 points by lnmx 15y ago

four 15y ago
The visualizations of processes are crucial to my understanding of Brendan's analysis. As a visual person, I can't imagine using this data another way. Once again we see that screen size remains a central UI limitation to better UX. Give me a wide printer and a big wall any time!
- deirdres 15y ago
  We're actually planning to print some of those at full size as office decoration.
- scott_s 15y ago
  You may be interested in this work: http://infovis.cs.vt.edu/gigapixel/ http://infovis.cs.vt.edu/gigapixel/
perone 15y ago
I've made something very similar, but using Ubigraph and for Python: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2kyssgtUvM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2kyssgtUvM
- seclorum 15y ago
  Looks very nice - I'd love to do something like this for Lua. I went looking for more details, but it looks like your blog is down, alas .. anyway, if there is already something out there on the subject of using Ubigraph, tutorial/howto-wise, I'll go looking for it. It'd be great to have something like that when debugging a large Lua project.
- agumonkey 15y ago
  Really neat.
Cieplak 15y ago
Graphviz is very useful for visualizing large graphs. You can learn to use it effectively in under five minutes. It's also very easy to transform CSV data into graphviz markup by piping it through one or two sed scripts.
- nonrecursive 15y ago
  Where can you learn to use it effectively in under five minutes?
  - Cieplak 15y ago
    Assuming you have dot installed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOT_language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOT_language Also, these are useful: http://www.graphviz.org/pdf/dotguide.pdf http://www.graphviz.org/pdf/dotguide.pdf http://linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/05/06/graphviz_dot.html http://linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/05/06/graphviz_do...
    - nonrecursive 15y ago
      Thanks
  - SkyMarshal 15y ago
    Another good example is in the book Land of Lisp. Chapter 7 and 8 makes a game, Hunt the Wumpus, using Graphviz: http://landoflisp.com/source.html http://landoflisp.com/source.html (check out graph-util.lisp and wumpus.lisp) Chapter 8 is even available as a free download: http://nostarch.com/download/Lisp08.pdf http://nostarch.com/download/Lisp08.pdf

112 points by lnmx 15y ago

four 15y ago

The visualizations of processes are crucial to my understanding of Brendan's analysis. As a visual person, I can't imagine using this data another way. Once again we see that screen size remains a central UI limitation to better UX. Give me a wide printer and a big wall any time!

deirdres 15y ago
We're actually planning to print some of those at full size as office decoration.
scott_s 15y ago
You may be interested in this work: http://infovis.cs.vt.edu/gigapixel/ http://infovis.cs.vt.edu/gigapixel/

perone 15y ago

I've made something very similar, but using Ubigraph and for Python: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2kyssgtUvM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2kyssgtUvM

seclorum 15y ago
Looks very nice - I'd love to do something like this for Lua. I went looking for more details, but it looks like your blog is down, alas .. anyway, if there is already something out there on the subject of using Ubigraph, tutorial/howto-wise, I'll go looking for it. It'd be great to have something like that when debugging a large Lua project.
agumonkey 15y ago
Really neat.

Cieplak 15y ago

Graphviz is very useful for visualizing large graphs. You can learn to use it effectively in under five minutes. It's also very easy to transform CSV data into graphviz markup by piping it through one or two sed scripts.

nonrecursive 15y ago
Where can you learn to use it effectively in under five minutes?
- Cieplak 15y ago
  Assuming you have dot installed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOT_language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOT_language Also, these are useful: http://www.graphviz.org/pdf/dotguide.pdf http://www.graphviz.org/pdf/dotguide.pdf http://linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/05/06/graphviz_dot.html http://linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/05/06/graphviz_do...
  - nonrecursive 15y ago
    Thanks
- SkyMarshal 15y ago
  Another good example is in the book Land of Lisp. Chapter 7 and 8 makes a game, Hunt the Wumpus, using Graphviz: http://landoflisp.com/source.html http://landoflisp.com/source.html (check out graph-util.lisp and wumpus.lisp) Chapter 8 is even available as a free download: http://nostarch.com/download/Lisp08.pdf http://nostarch.com/download/Lisp08.pdf