visualizing knowledge relationships

Happy New Year everybody!

This is probably not the first attempt to visualize the knowledge 
relationships, there was a similar approach floating in an e-mail a few 
weeks back.

http://www.neurocollective.com/sample.html

This graph is generated from NeuroCollective data and is cumulatively 
built in parallel to the user browsing the data, unless the user 
specifically clears it. I copied the node and edge data into a vis 
javascript environment to make it available as a sample. The 
NeuroCollective user interface is not ready for the public yet.

Once the graph settles you can zoom into, follow the labels. 
Doubleclicking on nodes does currently some neighborhood highlighting.

You will see how deep the level of relationship representations goes in 
the NeuroCollective. It basically allows reading natural language and 
transforming it into a corresponding knowledge graph.

You will also see that the knowledge storage is designed multilingual 
and the -currently- blue bubbles can be attached to any nodes (in the 
NeuroCollective UI), representing their textual representation in a 
language.

Mousing over the edges and composite nodes will give you an explanation 
of the meaning in English (for this graph sample). If it sometimes reads 
a bit awkward that is because it is automatically generated from the 
underlying knowledge.

E.g. If you find the node representing 'atom', the mouseover will 
explain that it is 'the smallest constituent unit of ordinary matter 
with property of a chemical element' just as defined in wikipedia.

I hope this entertains you, comments and suggestions are of course 
always welcome.

The page has been tested on several modern browsers, even my Android 
phone. The vis package is heavy on javascript. If it doesn't work on 
your browser drop me a note and I will see if I can fix it.

Tom Knorr

The NeuroCollective

Received on Monday, 2 January 2017 20:55:07 UTC