On Monday 22 November 2010 22:53:36 Nick Barnes wrote: > At 2010-11-15 11:09:15+0000, Adam McGreggor writes: > > On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 06:19:15PM +0000, Nick Barnes wrote: > > > At Ravenbrook we have done a lot of social network drawing and > > > analysis code under contract to a client. The drawing code all > > > belongs to us, and we are looking for other uses for it. We are > > > considering providing a Google-Charts-alike service, eventually. > > > > If the code's in a repo (and nicely licensed), I imagine others might > > branch+build on that, if they have a need. > > Unfortunately for this plan the code is not open source (also it's in > Common Lisp, so not many people have the chops to branch+build on it). > > > (And I'd imagine, that, to 'do things with' the Who's Lobbying > > database (data), there should be the "attribution, share-alike license > > for databases" -- per > > Message-Id: <[email protected]>) > > We would absolutely not intend to impose any unpleasant license on the > resulting drawings, even if we could. >
I've been experimenting with NetworkX and the data in my "rough who's lobbying" scraperwiki parser. The biggest issue I can see is that there is a *lot* of data - a big challenge to keep the graphs legible. Interesting result: weighting the nodes according to a rough guess at the relative importance of departments, and the edges based on how many lobbies took part in each meeting (so a one-to-one is best), the Department of Work and Pensions is where it's at. them and the Cabinet Office. But I was trying to measure the *lobbies* not the departments. I have some other ideas for layout strategies, notably using a version of CAIDA's strategy for visualising the Internet routing table. -- The only thing worse than e-mail disclaimers...is people who send e-mail to lists complaining about them
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