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Writting papers, documentations or what ever, starts by defining a layout. The problem defining your own layout is the imagination of how the hole document will look like. Defining a layout is best made when you already have written the hole text. But in most cases you don’t have it written yet.
On solution is to […]
Working on my master thesis about an implementation of a graph based knowledge browser I get in touch with other researching people from all over the world and publishing houses. It’s a great feeling other people admire your own work and ask for collaboration. But the research area isn’t as collaborative as it looks like. […]
more Looking to my today’s e-mails as every morning I found one I waited for weeks. It was an e-mail of the official dungeon….no, I mean desk keeper at the institut of informatics. He wrote some desk in the Diplomandenroom (i.e., private room for students working on their master thesis) have been freed up.
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Based on the graph-browser JSaurus, I implemented Wikigraph, a simple graph-based visualization of the content of Wikipedia.org. Every node in the graph represents a topic. Topics are connected to each other, if and only if one topic refers to the other one.
moreA readable graph respects aesthetic criteria of syntatic validity, perceptual organization and aesthetic optimality as proposed by Kosak et al. in 1994. Some algorithms focus on minimizing edge crossing whilst other focus on other aesthetic criteria.
Spring-embedder models and its variants fits aesthetic criteria. But which of them is the best?
Today it happend again: I got victim by the BIOZ-Syndrom. But what happend? Here’s the hole story about it.
I catched the tram at the Universitätsspital station. It was the line 10. Over all I was sure catching line 10! Passing the Irchel station the driver told us to change the tram to go to… . […]
A graph is nothing else then a thesaurus: Both contains nodes and connections or relations. Therefore I thought about visualizing the link relations between a homepages websites. I took my own homepage cPOEt.net as test data set to create a sitemap with JSaurus, a JavaScript software to visualize a graph or thesaurus.
The node sites […]
Jsaurus is a visualization tool to display a thesaurus with its nodes and relations in between. Jsaurus is written in JavaScript and DHTML. The goal of Jsaurus is to provide a piece of softare that manages every type of thesaurus and manages the visualization and behavior of nodes and relations too.
Jsaurus is build with the […]
Yesterday I started with my diploma thesis at the Institute of Informatics of the University of Zurich. The morning was quite chaotic. First my mentor told me to go to the secretary getting my official task. If one sends you to a secretary it will ever end up with beeing forwarded to other people beeing […]
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