Currently I'm planning on using dot and it's family.
I want to know if there is something more appropriate?
I'll need to show several levels, card and network connection(input and output):
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If you don't need the automatic layout graphviz offers, you may use ditaa to create nice diagrams. There's an online version you may take a look at for a quick test.
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I am quite new to Power BI and don't have much knowledge about it. I got the requirement to develop a report exactly as it is in the legacy system. The report has integrated bullet charts in a table and a custom collection of dimensions / facts.
Here's a screenshot:
Would it be possible to come up with a Power BI solution for that report which resembles the original more than 90%?
My current report tool doesn't support bullet charts at all (hence I am trying Power BI). However with Power BI it seems that you cannot integrate visuals like bullet charts (tried https://okviz.com/bullet-chart/) into a table.
It would be helping if you could choose one of these answers:
Yes, that's exactly what Power BI was made for and you can get it
from mostly standard functionality within the tool.
Yes, that's possible but you have to use some creative ways to come
up with a solution.
No, visuals, and tabular data are always two separate things in Power
BI
I think you can get duplicate the functionality pretty well, even if the exact formatting is a bit different.
Microsoft does have a Bullet Chart Visual that you can easily add to the out-of-the-box visualizations in Power BI using the Import a custom visual button. Here's a screenshot from the page I linked:
You can use the OKViz one you linked just as easily.
Whether you can get formatting that "resembles the original more than 90%" is unclear. I don't know how much of the style is required to match or how closely.
I am looking for a tool to automate making graphs with Gephi. I have dozens of similar graphs to prepare (only labels and figures in data differ), so need something able to automatically:
load nodes and edges from a file (e.g., csv)
set up layout (e.g., "type='force atlas 2', iterations=n, threads=m, scaling=p, gravity=q...")
apply selected laoyut
tune appearance (ranking: color, size)
export graph
I am aware of Gephi Toolkit, but it is for Java. Maybe there is some other way to automate Gephi? (or I will have to learn Java, which is not bad, but requires time)
I've also found Gephi Scripting Plugin, which is good but lacks some features, e.g. can't set up layout (only runs it with default settings).
Thanks in advance!
It is a bit tricky and haven't tried myself but if you don't want to get your feet wet with Java then you could try one of the automation frameworks that allow you to control a GUI application, e.g. Robot, PyAutoGUI or if you use Windows you can use pywinauto.
I know it not a complete answer but it might give you a lead.
I need to draw a more elaborate Mindmap to present my test strategy to my client. I have no experience of creating mind map with any tool.
Can someone suggest any good mindmap making tool?
For "pure" mind mapping I would suggest Freeplane (free and open source). I know people using Freeplane for professional test case generation. Very helpful in this respect are
extensive scripting support that can be used to support testcase entry and for customized exports
multiple fields per node that can be used for different purposes: attributes (tabular data), notes, detail
If your primary focus is the generation of presentations then you should probably use a different tool.
For more elaborate mindmap I would suggest XMind.
With XMind you can even create testcases inside your mindmap using its matrix features. There are lots more features like:
Timeline
Gantt view
Filters
Drilldown
Try https://github.com/mindolph/Mindolph , this desktop application provides features that you can create and manage mind map easily.
You may try online service MindMup or desktop ConceptDraw MINDMAP. Though the first one is not that professional and intuitive as ConceptDraw tool, it is free. The second product has a 21-day trial period, brainstorm mode, multiple hyperlinks, export to MS PowerPoint or Web pages and so on.
I need to fix my Alloy graph, for example I have this output:
I can't move "node2" rectangle over the row of "node0" and "node1", and I can't move "node1" under "node2" whitout also move "node0". Is there any solution? Thank you.
PS: I am using Alloy Analyzer 4.2 under Windows.
PPS: This is only an example, i get a big graph with 5 or 6 rows of 20-25 rectangles, and if I can't fix it manually, it's only a mess.
To answer the direct question: I for one have never found a way to make the visualizer change its mind about which nodes should be on the same horizontal level. (That doesn't quite mean it's not possible, but it does mean that if it's possible it's not immediately obvious how to do it. But I guess you knew that already.)
If your goal is to make the auto-generated diagrams easier to read, the simplest approach is to experiment with adjustments to the visualizer theme. The "Magic Layout" button can be helpful; manual adjustments to hide some nodes or display some relations as labels rather than arcs can help with diagrams which are otherwise too cluttered.
If your goal is to make a 'good' version of a diagram for inclusion on a slide for a talk or a figure for a paper, you may want to export to Dot and import into a graph-drawing tool that gives you the kind of manual control you want (or edit the .dot file yourself, if you are familiar with graphviz and can make it do what you want), or export to XML and generate the graph description language of your choice from the XML.
I hope this helps.
The Lightning tool is an Ecplise plugin relying on Alloy4.2 to formally define Domain Specific Languages and might be a solution to your problem.
It's still under development, but if you are only interested in being able to freely reorganize each atom and label of generated instances, there shouldn't be any problems, as it uses Ecplise draw2D to render those latter.
If now you're really interested in providing an intuitive visualization to your generated instance (by intuitive I mean a visualization that is closer to its domain rather than the structure of your model), then you can define your own language (with your model as abstract syntax ) and define a concrete syntax for it.
The update site to be used for the installation of the tool is : http://lightning.gforge.uni.lu/update-site
Don't hesitate to contact me if you plan to give it a shot and get any issues.
(I'm eager of constructive feedbacks ;-) )
The steps to follow to generate a graphical instance in which any components can be moved are :
Install Lightning
Create a new Lightning Project
Create a new Language in this project
Put your model in the ASM folder
generate instances of the language by "running the project"
I'm looking for an online tools where me and my team could collaborate on creating graphs.
The purpose is to bind related words, and generate the adjacency list. For example,
Foo----Bar----Brool
|_____Lol
will generate the following list :
Foo,[Bar]
Bar,[Foo,Brool,Lol]
Brool,[Bar]
Lol,[Bar]
The idea is to allow people to collaborate simply using graph visualization, without diving through the adjacency list directly.
There is one service wchich I believe is going to be designed to allow people to collaborate on creating a graph. It is Graph Commons. Site slogan says:
Collaborative 'network mapping' platform and knowledge base of relationships
Unfortunately at the moment you can only sign up for beta invitation on the website. And from the website it is not clear what the creation/editing mechanism would be.
You could use yfiles library to build a graph editor online, but I've never used it and I don't know if you can manage multimple sessions (hence allowing direct collaboration). But, for instance, if you use graphity, which is an implementation of yfiles flex library, and save a file on dropbox, then each collaborator has access to that file, and you can set up a rudimentary collaboration graph tool. Maybe.
It would be great to have tools like LucidChart or Draw.io, but they don't allow to export a graph file (e.g. graphML from which you can then have an edgelist with some other programs like Gephi). Those tools only allow you to export images and vectors. Draw.io exports xml, but not graphML.
I believe Linkurious let you edit your graph. Again, I've never used it, I don't know if you can manage multiple sessions > collaboration. But I would check it out. Edit: Linkurious enterprise edition (see pricing) is desegned to handle multiple user sessions.
What about building something with vis.js? The library has the ability to «listen for changes in the data» using a DataSet component. Have a look at this example.
I'm sorry if I don't have any real answer, but since your question is very interesting in these days, and the right tools would come out sooner or later (if it doesn't exists), I wanted to share these thoughts. I hope they can help. Please post when you find a solution!