Hi Sebastien, To quickly echo Friedrich's comments: Gephi is a fantastic tool and I think the area is definitely under-served. Secondly, would be very interested (generally) in connecting Gephi to the DataHub and OpenSpending more effectively.
Rufus On 30 May 2012 15:30, Friedrich Lindenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Sébastien, > > this is exciting! I've written about the need for such a tool here [1] > and here [2] and I'm obviously a great fan of your work. > > I've also done some work on a versioned, multi-tenant backend to > social graphs, which you can find at [3] - the docs are crap, but the > thing is working and has both a normal REST and a GEXF export > interface (to feed sigma.js, of course :). Really need to get into the > habit of announcing this stuff :) > > Going forward, I'd love to learn more about your plans and would also > recommend you apply not only to the KNC, but also to the African News > Information Challenge. > > I do think such a tool would fill a very big need with advocates, for > journalists I think you may have to push them a bit before they > realize the full potential (start with investigatives). > > Regarding your idea of linking this to CKAN/OpenSpending: I believe > this is how we will make both usable to advocates in the future. Our > portals offer a lot of (somewhat raw) resource and we need to find a > way for journalists and researchers to pull the bits that they really > need into a workbench where they can connect it to other datasets, > further evidence etc. Given they want to explore actor constellations > etc., a graph representation may be much more natural to this than > e.g. purely tabular data. Any good solution to this is going to have > to do frustrating amounts of entity recognition and record linkage, > though, before it becomes in any way useful and shiny. > > Let's talk if you're interested, I'm friedrich.cleversoft on Skype and > on #okfn in FreeNode. > > Cheers, > > - Friedrich > > [1] http://pudo.org/2011/12/19/sna.html > [2] http://pudo.org/2012/05/15/shuttleworth.html (bottom section) > [3] http://github.com/pudo/grano > > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Sébastien Heymann > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Dear OKF Team, >> >> I'm Sébastien Heymann, co-leader of the Gephi project >> (https://gephi.org/), an open source tool to make sense with >> relational data. I'm contacting you because we are considering to >> apply for the next Knight News Challenge about data >> (http://newschallenge.tumblr.com/faqs). Our idea is to create the >> "Many Eyes" of networked data, for any kind of networks such as social >> networks, interlocking directorates, email, Web, etc...and we need >> your opinion on it. >> >> This project will be a web platform to host, explore, and communicate >> networked data on the Web, mobile and newspapers. The goal is to speed >> up the work of journalists for the analysis and communication of >> networks. Users will be able to explore networks and edit data >> collaboratively like in: >> http://maps.e-diasporas.fr/index.php?focus=section§ion=5 >> >> Users will be also able to easily make embedded visualizations like >> the following ones: >> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9159131/Syria-Asma-and-Bashar-al-Assads-email-network.html >> http://ecologie.blog.lemonde.fr/2012/04/16/facenuke-la-cartographie-du-lobby-nucleaire-francais/ >> >> However we would like to know if this kind of tool fills some critical >> needs for the journalists, and how to improve the proposal. What do >> you think about the idea? I would be glad to discuss with you and your >> expectations. I guess we might connect the platform to the Data Hub >> and Open Spending to enable easy network analysis. >> >> Thank you very much for your time, >> >> Sébastien Heymann >> >> _______________________________________________ >> okfn-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss -- Co-Founder, Open Knowledge Foundation Promoting Open Knowledge in a Digital Age http://www.okfn.org/ - http://blog.okfn.org/ _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
