Interfaces and Grammars for Interactive Network Visualisation

This talk presents two of our latest visualization tools to help you with network visualisation:

The Vistorian (https://vistorian.github.io/vistorian/), a simple tool to interactively create and explore networks through a range of visualisations for dense, dynamic, and geographic networks. The Vistorian is aimed at anyone visualising networks (social networks, historical networks, etc.) and does not require coding. It is currently in a beta version with new features and visualisations being added regularly. We are looking for early adopters and plan for workshops over the summer.

NetPanorama (https://netpanorama.netlify.app) is the underlying visualization toolkit that supports The Vistorian, enabling scripting and customizing interactive network visualizations and integrating them into your own web applications. The toolkit is inspired by previous visualization grammars such as Vega and Vega-Lite (https://vega.github.io/vega-lite).

In this joint talk, Alexis Pister (Research engineer, University of Edinburgh) will present his work on designing network visualisation interfaces for Social History, in particular visual query systems. Then, he will introduce the NetPanorama toolkit.

Eventually, Xinhuan Shu will present the Vistorian network visualisation platform, its visualizations, and how it can help you in your network exploration.

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Xinhuan Shu is currently a lecturer at the School of Computing in Newcastle University. Her work focuses on developing expressive visualisation techniques and human-AI interfaces that facilitate human-data interaction in various data activities, including data transformation, analysis, and storytelling. Prior to that, she was a PostDoc at the Vishub group in University of Edinburgh, working on The Vistorian platform and interactive pattern explanation designs for network visualisations.

Alexis Pister is a data visualisation research engineer working in the VisHub research group and Edinburgh Future Institute. He mainly works on network visualisation and designing interactive visualisation interfaces. He has a Ph.D. on network visualisation for social history from Paris-Saclay University and Inria.

Vistorian Discord: https://discord.gg/y7HbbFCb
Vistorian Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/vistorian?pli=1

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The Edinburgh DataVis Meetup is an informal community event open to all, that has been bringing together practitioners, designers, academics, and the just plain curious in this highly active field since 2018.

This is a joint event with Newcastle University, and a hybrid event.
Doors open at 1800; talks start at 1815. Non-alcoholic refreshments are provided.

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