GraphML or GexF formats for posters in map view?

Q & A - getting started with Tinderbox
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I am a newb to posters but have found an app that exports in a graph format I am also new to using. I think Posters will help here but have no clue how to start or what to use…
Simply stated… this app allows export in GraphML or GexF format… is there a poster methodology for maps what will help me visualize it?
thanks
Tom

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Are you saying to want to ‘export to poster’ in Tinderbox using GraphML and GexF. What sort of data are you trying to graph—do you have a particular outcome in mind?

The best approach is to find an example of these formats to web page display and then reverse engineer where Tinderbox input might go. A quick google suggests there are solutions but not simple.

For GexF you might do better to pass your data as note/edge files to Gephi and have it export the data via it’s Sigma.js plug-in †. Note the latter is an incomplete (summer intern!) project so you amend the default output you’ll need to read up on sigma.js documentation. do-able but unless already expert in sigma.js, a non-trivial amount of work. You might find this tutorial of use, if only to gauge the difficulty of the task.

†. This is how I made this demo (Tinderbox export of node/edge, import to Gephi, configure graph, export to sigma.js. IIRC, it was a lot of work and I gave up trying to fix bugs in the sigma.js implementation.

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I am just exploring the export format of another program and wondering how I can view it in tinderbox. The graph program can export in GraphML, GexF for to view its graph (its got json and csv) for its text and data but I would like also to view its graph in tinderbox. I am just exploring if it would work.

Ok, let’s say I export its graph data in GraphML or GexF format. Would I be able to paste it in the text field, then use a posters template to view in map view? I think this is what posters are for for map view… what I do not know, is what url you could use to view it? Is GraphML and GexF fairly standard that I could point it at the correct url and ‘expect’ it to work. Probably not. If not, I will not invest the time. Just asking the forum to others more knowledgeable about these formats I have never used before.

thanks in advance

Tom

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Almost certainly no, at least not that simply. Not least you’ll need to find the libraries that enable web display of this data. They aren’t web-native formats, it is a lot like using inline SVG to draw a diagram. My quick look at Google earlier suggests it is do-able, but not in a simple ‘just use it’ manner but rather it probably requires a reasonable degree of web/JavaScript skill.

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Graphml in gephi?

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this is already in deep water for me… sounds like I will stick to csv and json.

Thanks
Tom