{"id":696,"date":"2014-07-31T09:34:15","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T17:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/?p=696"},"modified":"2014-07-31T09:34:15","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T17:34:15","slug":"oligrapher-from-littlesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/?p=696","title":{"rendered":"Oligrapher from LittleSis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at <a href=\"littlesis.org\">LittleSis<\/a> (the opposite of Big Brother) have just released a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.littlesis.org\/2014\/07\/22\/introducing-oligrapher-power-mapping-on-littlesis\/\">nice tool for creating &#8220;powermaps&#8221;<\/a> using the relationships between entities in their database.  Powermaps are an informal term for a type of network graph illustrating various types of relationships between (often multiple types) of people or institutions <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"littlesis-map-#{@map.id}\" height=\"400\" width=\"550\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"border: 0px; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"http:\/\/littlesis.org\/maps\/157-mapping-the-vampire-squid\/raw?embed=true&#038;zoom=0.824\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 5px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/littlesis.org\/maps\/157-mapping-the-vampire-squid\">view this map on LittleSis<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The maps are quite lovely, built as zoomable SVG objects embedded in the webpage with elegant highlighting and mouse-over label reveals. The entities on screen supporting clicking through to the corresponding page in the LittleSis database.   From peeking at the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/skomputer\/oligrapher\">Oiligrapher source code on github<\/a> it appears that the tool makes heavy use of <a href=\"http:\/\/d3js.org\">d3<\/a> (of course) and some of the force-directed network layout code.   They cite Mark Lombardi as a strong influence for the visual aesthetic. Not sure about speed\/performance issues on larger networks, but this seems like a great tool for these types of relatively sparse illustrations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at LittleSis (the opposite of Big Brother) have just released a nice tool for creating &#8220;powermaps&#8221; using the relationships between entities in their database. Powermaps are an informal term for a type of network graph illustrating various types of relationships between (often multiple types) of people or institutions view this map on LittleSis &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/?p=696\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oligrapher from LittleSis<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,28,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}