Re: [Gramps-users] All people in one view: a non-traditional visualisation option

[StoltHD <st...@gm...>]

I also use Network Graphs in my research...
But I am creating a knowledge graph with relations not only between people,
but between repositories, sources, documents, places, events, people (both
familiy- and "external" relations).

There are multiple software in additon to Polinode and Gehpi...
- yED Desktop, can import gedcom (Free)
- Cytoscape, Imports multiple formats, but not gedcom (open source, free)
- Zegrada (Open Source Free)
- VIS-Desktop (Open Source, free, Not recommended for large scale)
- Social Network Visualizer (Open Source, free)

- Palladio is another advanced analyzing tool, (open source, free) this
also has GPS mapping, histograms and facet search, in addition to a gallery
and table grid view...
( https://github.com/humanitiesplusdesign/palladio)


Advanced concept map tools:
VUE, (Not maintained anymore, but still work)
cMap Tools (free)
Instrumind ThinkComposer (Windows only, free)
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I n addition there is Neo4j, the graph database, it can connect to mongoDB
and utilize the Gramps mongoDB database.

It actually would be possible to create this type of view in Gramps by
making a add-on/gramplet/viw, Graphviz supports this type of networks out
of box


At the moment I use OpenRefine to clean data (csv at the moment) and merge
with reconcile with other datasets.


Because of the size and complexity of my project, I'm actually looking at
solutions as Omeka, The Arches Project, Researchspace, Histograph and
Heurist (an Australian project, http://heuristnetwork.org/ ).


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I really liked your layout of the website, it was clean and easy to read
and navigate... really good work there...
Could you share what other tools you used?

Jaran

søn. 8. des. 2019 kl. 00:13 skrev J M Wynands <jm...@gm...>:

> Hi folks,
>
> I read with interest the conversation(s) recently about interactive trees,
> & wanted to add another new way to visualise family history. It's fairly
> non-traditional but can produce a picture of all people in one view plus
> yield some interesting insights.
>
> For especially large trees where the path back in time isn't as much of a
> concern an actor-network diagram can be useful. Actor-network diagrams are
> mainly used for social network analysis, eg of contemporary Facebook
> networks or the Enron emails. They're relatively simple, composed of just
> nodes (people) & edges (relationships), although you can add a range of
> attributes to those two parts to give more depth to the picture. These can
> include node shapes by type, eg gender (similar to a genotype graph), node
> colours by type, eg family or century, node sizes by edge count (more
> relationships = larger nodes), plus edges can be coloured & given greater
> thickness according to relationship type & strength.
>
> Tools you can use to produce these diagrams include Polinode, which is
> cloud based, & Gephi, which has a desktop version that can output to html,
> if you need/want to publish the result. The tools use some pretty
> sophisticated algorithms to organise the network into clusters, according
> to which nodes have what edges (beyond me personally to understand, but if
> you're better at maths & stats than I, there's plenty to learn there).
>
> The way actor-network diagrams generate clusters really helps with
> understanding how people have/are connected & over time family groups have
> formed & morphed. It also seriously helps make sense of large data sets. In
> my case I inherited my grandmother's 30+ years of research, which totals
> 11,451 entries. The majority are from the last 3 centuries only, so it's
> more a 'wide net' family history than a traditional genealogy anyway. It
> features among other things several intermarriages at different times,
> because Australia in the late 18th, 19th & early 20th centuries was really
> not that big a place.
>
> Since it was all created in paf I'm eternally grateful for Gramps for
> providing a way forward with the data; I've also used the navweb output &
> that feature is much appreciated too. However I couldn't make much of all
> the unfamiliar names, either in Gramps' different trees, or especially
> among the mountains of paper that I was given to digitise (how do you
> create a logical system for organising & naming files when each document
> has a dozen different names present? The mind boggles). So I used Polinode,
> after trying Gephi, to produce an interactive map of all 11,451 in one
> view. The result is both a fantastic demonstration of the scale of my
> grandma's research, plus a way to comprehend the data & reams of paper: via
> the main clusters, which I've developed into 'clans'. If you'd like to see
> the map, please go to https://indidem.github.io/.
>
> If you're open to trying a fairly novel, non-traditional visualisation,
> you may find that Polinode &/or Gephi add some value to your research. All
> people in one view is difficult to achieve with trees, & even interactive
> ones can leave you lost after a few jumps. Both programs have good
> communities (Polinode is newer than Gephi but the developer/owner is a fast
> & generous responder to forum queries, even for free account holders), plus
> there's tutorials on youtube & other help/blog resources to draw on to
> learn the ropes.
>
> Cheers,
> Jess
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