Nick, Something like this...
http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/examples/monet/monet.html ? Sorry, no Ali McGraw.. Miles On Jul 13, 2010, at 7:46 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: > steve, > > I don't know if this is relevant, but there was still, when I last looked, > no web tool for building family timelines. Lot's of genealogy but no time > line software. So, one would enter family events into a form and the > software would plot those events in relation to those of other family > members and larger social events. It could a data base of time lines of > famous people so, for instance, you could find out what Ali Mcgraw was > doing on the day you fell in love for the first time. Is this a > webappllication version of what you are doing that could be sold for 25 > dollars to 50 million people and make you shit rich? > > Probably not. > > Nick > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, > Clark University ([email protected]) > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe] > > > > >> [Original Message] >> From: Stephen Guerin <[email protected]> >> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> >> Date: 7/12/2010 4:18:50 PM >> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] How do you auto-create a network diagram? >> >> For opensource graph visualization, you might check out: >> http://gephi.org/ >> >> 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 >> >> The user can input multiple spreadsheets or tables of two types: >> entities and events. Entities you can think of as nouns in a system >> and might be what actually flows through the system. In the case of a >> healthcare the entities might be patients, doctors, or medications. >> The events bind the nouns together with a start and end timestamp. In >> healthcare, we are using insurance billing data that has a particular >> patient mapped to a doctor, clinic, service and medication. We're also >> using performance data for the events. >> >> In education, the entities would be students, teachers, classrooms and >> events would be the transcripts binding a student to a teacher, >> classroom, subject and performance grade. >> >> EventFlow is not yet in a shrink-wrapped form but maybe after a couple >> more projects with it.... >> >> -S >> >> _____________________________________________________________ >> [email protected] >> (m) 505-216-6226 (o) 505-995-0206 >> sfcomplex.org | simtable.com | ambientpixel.com | redfish.com >> >> On Jul 12, 2010, at 7:29 AM, Tom Johnson wrote: >> >>> Any FRIAM-ers have insights to this interesting query? >>> >>> -tom johnson >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> From: Dan T Keating <[email protected]> >>> Date: Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 6:41 AM >>> Subject: Re: [NICAR-L] How do you auto-create a network diagram? >>> To: [email protected] >>> >>> >>> >>> The data structure described here looks like Semantic Web, an >>> attempt to define relationships that will allow creation of >>> automatic relationships and links that would not otherwise be >>> apparent. We know in math that if a = b and b > c then a > c, but >>> seeing that kind of relationship across data at different websites >>> is not easy. Once data is in the Resource Descriptor Formt (RDF) >>> format >>> Object ==> relationship ==> Fact >>> like >>> Bill ==> lives on ==> Main St >>> and >>> Main St ==> is in ==> Neverland >>> then tools can start to find patterns in the data. There's a db >>> query languary for it SPARQL. >>> >>> I had read some on Semantic Web a couple years ago and seeing the >>> data in this pattern made me wonder if there are more useful tools >>> for digesting it. But zipping around the (old fashioned, non- >>> semantic) web has not revealed much more than theoretical >>> discussions. Maybe someone has put out a good tool for representing >>> data prepared in this format, but I'm not seeing it right now. >>> >>> The most comprensible links I'm seeing right now are from Joshua >>> Tauberer, the guy behind govtrack.us. His blogs on the topic are at >>> http://razor.occams.info/blog/category/semantic-web/ >>> _________________________________ >>> Dan Keating >>> Graphics Editor/Data, The Washington Post >>> (202) 334-5047, [email protected] >>> >>> >>> >>> "Skelton, Chad (Vancouver Sun)" <[email protected]> >>> 07/09/2010 06:29 PM >>> >>> Please respond to >>> Discussion Forum <[email protected]> >>> >>> To >>> [email protected] >>> cc >>> Subject >>> [NICAR-L] How do you auto-create a network diagram? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> So a colleague of mine has some data showing the inter-locking >>> relationships between various people and companies. The data is set >>> up in a spreadsheet kind of like this >>> >>> Name Relationship To >>> John Smith Works For Tim Jones >>> Tim Jones Donated Money to ABC Inc. >>> ABC Inc. Employs John >>> Smith >>> ABC Inc. Hired >>> John Smith >>> >>> She'll looking for a way to map all these relationships to try to >>> get a sense of how these spheres of influence overlap. I know I've >>> seen network diagrams like this before -- different points with >>> lines between them, with text along the lines showing the >>> relationship between the two points. I even remember seeing them in >>> a course I took that dealt with RDFa syntax. I'm assuming there must >>> be tools out there that can create simple diagrams from data kind of >>> like my colleague's. >>> >>> Any tips on what tools we could use to make this work? Those that >>> are free and/or web based would be best. :) Thanks! >>> >>> >>> Chad Skelton, Reporter >>> The Vancouver Sun >>> [email protected] >>> Phone: 604-605-2892 >>> Fax: 604-605-2323 >>> >>> Check out my blogs: >>> vancouversun.com/parenting/ >>> vancouversun.com/papertrail/ >>> >>> Follow me at twitter.com/chadskelton and twitter.com/curiousdad >>> >>> ==================================================================== >>> To unsubscribe from NICAR-L, please send "unsubscribe NICAR-L" in >>> the body of an e-mail message to "[email protected]". >>> Please e-mail [email protected] if you need help or have questions. >>> ==================================================================== >>> >>> ==================================================================== >>> To unsubscribe from NICAR-L, please send "unsubscribe NICAR-L" in >>> the body of an e-mail message to "[email protected]". >>> Please e-mail [email protected] if you need help or have questions. >>> ==================================================================== >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> ========================================== >>> J. 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