InfoVis Cyberinfrastructure has a good list of visualisation software, toolkits and techniques: http://iv.slis.indiana.edu/sw Unfortunately many of the vis toolkits require custom programming to create the desired visualisations. If you're happy to do some development then Processing (http://www.processing.org) and GraphViz (http://www.graphviz.org) are worth considering. With Processing your visualisation can be easily embedded in a website (via a Java applet). I haven't used SoNIA (Social Network Image Animator) but it also may be an option: http://www.stanford.edu/group/sonia - Mike On 20 Feb 2008, at 09:47, Ismael Peña-López wrote:
Dear list,
I'm trying to find a tool to draw networks and relationships between several agents. BUT, not only want I to represent/draw it, but to be able to browse it, move it..., USE it as a visualization tool.
I'm thinking in something the like of MindRaider (http://mindraider.sourceforge.net/), but simpler and, if possible, exportable to flash, so it can be embedded in websites and/or uploaded to a web server so it can be accessed and updated remotely. For those not familiar with MindRaider, Google TouchGraph is a good approach, though I do not want it to set up website relationships.
The optimum to me would be Freemind (http:// freemind.sourceforge.net/) with some of MindRaider features (i.e. breaking the tree structure of Freemind).
Any ideas?
BTW, this is what I've already explored http://ictlogy.net/wiki/index.php?title=Data_Visualization so if you wanted to suggest one of those... well, you needn't ;))
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