

With support from the National Science Foundation, the investigators are engaged in a mission to study and map the flow of precedent across the American court system during the full course of the 20th century on the issue of regulatory takings. This project focuses on the articulation, development, and dissemination of legal precedent across the multi-tiered system of American courts. In this way we have a LinksOut View (UP) and a LinksIn View (DOWN) and we could use the opacity of each arch to visualize how relations are relevant considering the numeber of links (in/out) among blogs. The use of arches and circles come out from “The Shape of Songs†by Martin Wattenberg. Below the line I can have also arches, but the connection direction is from right to left. Above the line I can have arches connecting a source blog (on the left side of the arch) to another (on the right side of the arch).

My idea is really simple: suppose you have a line where you can use points to represent Blogs. What seemed to me really interesting is mainly the relations Analysis and not the Graph representation, because it tends to offer a “star-system†style visual environment that requires some more deep work in order to be used to understand how blogs are related each other. I started looking around to find interesting solutions about blog-mapping ( from the Manuel Lima’s blogviz, to the BlogoPole French initiative and the first BlogBabel visualization from Ludo). My effort in this interesting project is about to find some new, useful infovis-related solutions to offer some better cognitive tools to approach the Italian blog world and its relations. I’ve been invited to join to the blogbabel initiative that aims to map the italian blogosphere. Outside the circle, the dynamic proteins without interactions are both positioned and colored according to their peak time, and thus also serve as a legend for the color scheme in the network.Īnalysis and experiments on relations into the Italian Blogosphere For the dynamic proteins, the time of peak expression is shown by the node color static proteins are represented by white nodes. Cell cycle proteins that are part of complexes or other physical interactions are shown within the circle. "But now a picture has emerged which is extremely dynamic." This graph represents a temporal protein interaction network of the yeast mitotic cell cycle. "Past studies of this type have usually left out a crucial element - time," says EMBL Group Leader Peer Bork. Until now, scientists didn't have a clear idea of when proteins form these machines - are these complexes pre-fabricated or put together on the spot for each specific job? Researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), working closely with scientists from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), have now answered that question by drawing together many types of data in a fascinating new model. Most things that happen in the cell are the work of 'molecular machines' - complexes of proteins that carry out important cellular functions. When combined with a method for aggregating or eliding nodes far away from the focus, this technique can also provide an effective way to explore very large graphs. The algorithm augments the well-known radial layout method by linearly interpolating the polar coordinates of the nodes and enforcing constraints on the new layout to keep it as similar as possible to the previous layout. The main contribution of this work is a new technique for animating the transitions from one view to the next in a smooth, appealing manner. The authors used a visualization paradigm in which the view of a graph is determined by the selection of a single node as the center of interest, or focus. The ability to interactively view a graph from different perspectives can yield new insights. Even if a graph is small enough to display all at once, it can be difficult to understand all of its relationships from only a single view. As an alternative to trying to fit an entire graph into one view, this project provides exploration of subregions of the graph. Presented at InfoVis 2001, this project presents a new animation technique for supporting interactive exploration of a graph using a radial tree layout method.
