[SoNIA-users] horizontal timline layout ?

[Laura R. M. <lau...@ma...>]

Hello,

I am a doctoral student in musicology at McGill University. I've been collecting data regarding the acquisition of a particular technique among string instrument players over the last 50 years, and I'm currently looking for an appropriate network visualization program to map my data.  My data set is relatively small (approx. 100 nodes).
Would you tell me if SoNIA can do the following:

--  Layout of nodes in chronological order.  i.e. I would like the horizontal axis to function as a timeline. Therefore, the x coordinate of each node would be determined by the year in which that musician acquired the technique.
--  vertical clustering of nodes according to a given attribute. The musicians in my study come from 5 different countries, so I'd like the nodes representing each nationality to cluster together. This would have to be vertically, since the horizontal axis is the timeline.

Thanks for your help!

Laura

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Laura Risk
lau...@ma...
PhD student, musicology
McGill University
www.laurarisk.com