Hi Sebastien, Honestly, I love Gephi work and I was looking something like it and finally I've found it.
I'm aminsabeti on Skype and I would like to talk with you about Farsi/Persian version of Gephi. Is there any chance that we have Farsi version? Thanks Amin On 30 May 2012 15:58, Rufus Pollock <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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