Re: visualizing knowledge relationships

Hi Tom.


> 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.

What is NeuroCollective about? What's the goal? Where is NeuroCollective 
located? What's the kind of data?

What were your reasons to choose vis.js for visualization and not other 
technologies?

Do you know http://tiddlymap.org/ ? It's a vis.js plugin for 
http://tiddlywiki.com/ - a Wiki System. Why don't you use that?

>
> 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
>
>
>

Thanks for sharing this, Tom.
Norman

Received on Tuesday, 3 January 2017 12:18:05 UTC