Based at the Four Eyes Lab, Dept. of Comp Science, University of California Santa Barbara, the WiGis project centers around visualization of large-scale, highly interactive graphs in a user's web browser. Our software is delivered natively in your web browser and does not require any plug-ins or add-ons. Our method produces clean, smooth animation in a browser through asynchronous data transfer (AJAX), and access to rich server side resources without the need for technologies such as Flash, Java Applets, Flex or Silverlight. We believe that our new techniques have broad reaching potential across the web. Below is a windowed version of the system. For the full experience click the button below.
Drag a node in the graph below to interact with it
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The WiGi above is capable of interactively visualizing graphs of up to a million nodes by using asynchronous technique for processing large-scale graph layouts. It dynamically switches between client-side processing (JavaScript) and remote server-side processing (Java). For the end-user, interaction with the graph is seamless and the same look-and-feel is provided for both client and server-side approaches. Using this strategy, we can provide fast interaction with graphs consisting of hundreds of thousands of nodes, and we are working on extending this number! Please, feel free to try out the graph visualization. Weare always interested in testing our system on new data. So if you have something you would like to visualize (interactively or otherwise) with our tool, please contact us. We have a manual upload page that accepts formats such as Excel and CSV. We are currently working on a RESTful web api for our tool to allow programmatic data upload. |
