[okfn-discuss] Gephi network visualization proposal for the Knight News Challenge

Thu May 31 11:49:59 UTC 2012

Hi Sebastien,

Honestly, I love Gephi work and I was looking something like it and finally
I've found it.

I'm aminsabeti on Skype and I would like to talk with you about
Farsi/Persian version of Gephi. Is there any chance that we have Farsi
version?

Thanks

Amin

On 30 May 2012 15:58, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hi Sebastien,
>
> To quickly echo Friedrich's comments: Gephi is a fantastic tool and I
> think the area is definitely under-served. Secondly, would be very
> interested (generally) in connecting Gephi to the DataHub and
> OpenSpending more effectively.
>
> Rufus
>
> On 30 May 2012 15:30, Friedrich Lindenberg
> <friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org> wrote:
> > Hey Sébastien,
> >
> > this is exciting! I've written about the need for such a tool here [1]
> > and here [2] and I'm obviously a great fan of your work.
> >
> > I've also done some work on a versioned, multi-tenant backend to
> > social graphs, which you can find at [3] - the docs are crap, but the
> > thing is working and has both a normal REST and a GEXF export
> > interface (to feed sigma.js, of course :). Really need to get into the
> > habit of announcing this stuff :)
> >
> > Going forward, I'd love to learn more about your plans and would also
> > recommend you apply not only to the KNC, but also to the African News
> > Information Challenge.
> >
> > I do think such a tool would fill a very big need with advocates, for
> > journalists I think you may have to push them a bit before they
> > realize the full potential (start with investigatives).
> >
> > Regarding your idea of linking this to CKAN/OpenSpending: I believe
> > this is how we will make both usable to advocates in the future. Our
> > portals offer a lot of (somewhat raw) resource and we need to find a
> > way for journalists and researchers to pull the bits that they really
> > need into a workbench where they can connect it to other datasets,
> > further evidence etc. Given they want to explore actor constellations
> > etc., a graph representation may be much more natural to this than
> > e.g. purely tabular data. Any good solution to this is going to have
> > to do frustrating amounts of entity recognition and record linkage,
> > though, before it becomes in any way useful and shiny.
> >
> > Let's talk if you're interested, I'm friedrich.cleversoft on Skype and
> > on #okfn in FreeNode.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >  - Friedrich
> >
> > [1] http://pudo.org/2011/12/19/sna.html
> > [2] http://pudo.org/2012/05/15/shuttleworth.html (bottom section)
> > [3] http://github.com/pudo/grano
> >
> > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Sébastien Heymann
> > <sebastien.heymann at gephi.org> wrote:
> >> Dear OKF Team,
> >>
> >> I'm Sébastien Heymann, co-leader of the Gephi project
> >> (https://gephi.org/), an open source tool to make sense with
> >> relational data. I'm contacting you because we are considering to
> >> apply for the next Knight News Challenge about data
> >> (http://newschallenge.tumblr.com/faqs). Our idea is to create the
> >> "Many Eyes" of networked data, for any kind of networks such as social
> >> networks, interlocking directorates, email, Web, etc...and we need
> >> your opinion on it.
> >>
> >> This project will be a web platform to host, explore, and communicate
> >> networked data on the Web, mobile and newspapers. The goal is to speed
> >> up the work of journalists for the analysis and communication of
> >> networks. Users will be able to explore networks and edit data
> >> collaboratively like in:
> >> http://maps.e-diasporas.fr/index.php?focus=section&section=5
> >>
> >> Users will be also able to easily make embedded visualizations like
> >> the following ones:
> >>
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9159131/Syria-Asma-and-Bashar-al-Assads-email-network.html
> >>
> http://ecologie.blog.lemonde.fr/2012/04/16/facenuke-la-cartographie-du-lobby-nucleaire-francais/
> >>
> >> However we would like to know if this kind of tool fills some critical
> >> needs for the journalists, and how to improve the proposal. What do
> >> you think about the idea? I would be glad to discuss with you and your
> >> expectations. I guess we might connect the platform to the Data Hub
> >> and Open Spending to enable easy network analysis.
> >>
> >> Thank you very much for your time,
> >>
> >> Sébastien Heymann
> >>
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