Hi Russell, My proposal is available through this link: http://www.cs.uga.edu/~shasha/gsoc12/pig/application_pig_visualizer.html .
Look forward to your further comments, thank you. Best, On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Russell Jurney <russell.jur...@gmail.com>wrote: > I can't see the proposal, as I'm not an approved mentor. I'd suggest > working with rcmper...@gmail.com if possible. You might focus on > visualization of ILLUSTRATE while he focuses on the editor? > On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Shasha Liu <grassons...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi Daniel, >> >> Thanks a lot for the reply. >> I installed the latest Pig and read through the book of "programming in >> pig". >> I manged to use "-dot -out filename" to produce three graphs in dot file >> format. >> >> Based on the existing dot file, my next question is what is the >> requirement regarding a better visualizer? >> Are we going to generate a picture (e.g., .png) for different plans >> (logical plan, physical plan, map reduce plan), or provide a web interface >> to visualize these graphs of plans? >> >> Best regards, >> -- >> Shasha(Amy) Liu >> >> >> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 3:30 AM, Daniel Dai <da...@hortonworks.com>wrote: >> >>> See comments inline. >>> >>> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 6:52 AM, grassonsand <grassons...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> > Dear all, >>> > >>> > I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and have 4-year Java >>> programming >>> > experience focusing on Java Web development. >>> > In the candidate projects in PIG, I am interested in PIG-2586 (A better >>> > plan/data flow visualizer) and PIG-2599 (Mavenize Pig). >>> > >>> > In my on-going research project, I am in charge of (1). web user >>> interface >>> > development and (2). build system. Now I am working on adding hadoop >>> > capability to the project. The main reason I am interested in the PIG >>> > project is that I can make a contribution to the PIG community based >>> on my >>> > previous experience, and learn from the participant in GSoC this year >>> and >>> > benefit my on-going research project at the same time. >>> > >>> > (1). User interface development >>> > I have used several graphic libraries to visualize semantic data and >>> our own >>> > data set, e.g., Jung, graphviz, BIRT, and several plot plugins in >>> jquery. >>> > Therefore, I am interested in working on a new tool for PIG visualizer. >>> > After looking through the bug issue, I have several questions: >>> > (i) As both swing and javascript are mentioned, is this project a >>> web or >>> > standalone application? >>> > (ii) As ruby-graphviz is included, Is ruby required for this >>> project? >>> >>> I envision two visualize components in Pig. One is a lightweight >>> visualizer invoked by Grunt, which should be fast and concise, and >>> integrated into explain command. The other is a standalone composer >>> similar to PigPen, which should be much powerful. PIG-2586 is intended >>> to track the first, but Russel's comment is talking about the second. >>> Both are acceptable as a GSoC project. I leave it to Russel. >>> >>> > >>> > (2). Build system >>> > The code base of my research project is 40K loc and the build script >>> was >>> > written in Ant. Part of my duty is to convert the ant build script to >>> maven >>> > and maintain the build script. Therefore, Mavenize Pig is of interest >>> to me >>> > too. The build.xml in PIG project is more complicated than the one I >>> worked >>> > before. It includes ant, maven and ivy. Do we need to use maven to do >>> all >>> > the tasks and get rid of all the dependency on ant, maven and ivy? >>> >>> Yes >>> >>> > >>> > Best regards >>> > Shasha(Amy) Liu >>> >> >> >> > > > -- > Russell Jurney twitter.com/rjurney russell.jur...@gmail.com datasyndrome. > com > -- Shasha(Amy) Liu
