Second European Conference on Social Networks, June 14-17, 2016, Paris
D3.js (http://d3js.org/) is a powerful Javascript visualization library that enables users to produce professionally looking (interactive) data visualizations that can be viewed in web browsers. The produced pictures can also be exported into SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format and afterwards imported into a vector graphics editor (such as Inkscape or Illustrator) and manually enhanced and saved in a selected format for inclusion in other publications.
We developed netD3 – a set of additional network visualization procedures over D3.js that provides network analysts with different ways to display their networks. To prepare network data for netD3 visualizations we defined a special netJSON format for describing networks and their layouts in JSON. In the workshop we will first learn how to describe networks in netJSON and afterwards explore different ways to visualize them using netD3 options.
The developed framework can be used by network analysts to produce visualizations of their networks that can be put on the WWW or used in other publications (reports, slides, papers, books, etc.). The authors of network analysis programs can export their results in netJson format and use netD3 for their visualization. The netD3 library will be available at http://vladowiki.fmf.uni-lj.si/doku.php?id=vis .
No special knowledge is expected from the users. Everything necessary to use the netD3 library will be explained at the workshop.
To use the netD3 library a network analyst has to prepare the data in the netJSON format (for some network data formats the conversion programs will be provided) and to specify some parameters in web page templates. The netJSON format will be explained at the workshop and is relatively simple. The knowledge of the used web technologies (Javascript, HTML, SVG, CSS) is not required.
In preparation.