[Chicago] Web application framework for network visualization

Joshua Herman zitterbewegung at gmail.com
Sun Jun 3 21:12:41 CEST 2012


web2py can do the job that django is doing. web2py has some nice wizards too
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On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Oren Livne <livne at uchicago.edu> wrote:
> Great, this is probably faster than the Flash-backed Cygtoscape. Can I input
> my own node positions?
> Regarding a web framework, which I'd like to have, what about web2py in
> place of django?
> Thank you, Bob and Josh,
> Oren
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> On 6/3/2012 1:36 PM, Joshua Herman wrote:
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>> http://d3js.org/ does this too you just have to write the graph in json
>> http://mbostock.github.com/d3/ex/force.html
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>> You could just have a bunch of json files and change the graph being
>> displayed in javascript.
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>> On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Oren Livne<livne at uchicago.edu>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> 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. Graphs are stored in a
>>> database.
>>> What's the best route? I thought of learning django as a web framework
>>> and
>>> using cytoscape to display graphs. Of course, I would have to generate
>>> the
>>> graph in my code and pass it to cytoscape via AJAX. Is that an overkill?
>>> Is
>>> there a simpler way?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Oren
>>>
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