[Chicago] Web application framework for network visualization

Bob Haugen bob.haugen at gmail.com
Sun Jun 3 20:18:32 CEST 2012


On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Oren Livne <livne at uchicago.edu> wrote:
> I'd like to write a web app that can display a directed graph as an SVG
> image after the particular graph has been selected from a drop down menu,
> where nodes are click-able (say, highlighted in red when clicked) via AJAX
> that triggers a back-end callback function.

I've been using Dracula with Django on the back end:
http://www.graphdracula.net/

Not perfect.  Layouts could be better. No edge-overlap optimization,
for example (edges can cross nodes).  Might switch myself if somebody
suggests something better.  But it does work.


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