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/), which may not do graphs, but can 
> certainly do some really neat things with data analysis.  However, I believe 
> both of these options force you to make your raw data public as well (or at 
> least what's needed to create the visualization), which may or may not be 
> what they're looking for.  The non-free version of Tableau doesn't have that 
> requirement.  I don't believe there's a commercial version of Many Eyes yet 
> (although I'm sure IBM would be happy to sell you something if you asked).

$1k for Tableau. :O In the next year or so you should see sets of Open Source 
tech that together do far more but it is a neat demo of the possible.

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. But first, yeah, hire a librarian.

On Jul 12, 2010, at 1:18 PM, Stephen Guerin wrote:

> For opensource graph visualization, you might check out:
>  http://gephi.org/

Wow, that has it all over Zest, the current Eclipse hosted offering. Makes me 
wonder how hard it would be to turn into a set of Eclipse plugins..

> 
> 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 collaborators 
> in the UK:
>  http://redfish.com/SFComplex/projects/UKNHSShropshire.html

> 

Neat, guys!

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