I am new at graphing tools for big data analysis. Though the following is not from big data, I was wondering what kind of tools are used to create this kind of complex graph:
http://www.bitmover.com/lmbench/mem_lat3.pdf
Associated with the paper http://www.bitmover.com/lmbench/lmbench-usenix.pdf
The article is made in LaTeX (particulary groff project), according to metadata in the chart's PDF, it's saved to PDF from Photoshop (so this lead ends here). Anyway, the TikZ or Asymptote (see gallery) are capable of drawing charts like this..
Looks a little bit like gnuplot, but it can be perfectly done by matplotlib. An example can be found at this page.
Sorry, I never noticed this question before. Larry borrowed that graphic from me and it was created with Excel.
I was considering adding code to lmbench to create that plot automatically and Thorsten's suggestion of mplot3d sounds like a good place to start.
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I apologize if the answer was already somewhere, searching the interwebs did not return me the answer(s) I was looking for.
Situation : I have a small graph (a set of Edges and Nodes that is) - Now I want to display it in an interactive manner, and I would like to manipulate the display styles and symbols that are used for edges and nodes, programetically.
Hence kgraphviewer wont work - i want to do it programetically as stated.
I noticed VTK, comes with a lot of built is graph drawing algorithms. But seems to be a really large one.
Question : What are some alternatives to VTK ? Graphviz is probably one, but I can not confirm that graphviz comes with all the graph drawing algorithms as VTK - any other possibly smaller options, with all the built in graphs?
Side note : Some systems uses a static drawign widget, i.e. once the drawing is displayed, in an widget that the system comes with, you can not interact with the drawing using your mouse. The GNU implementation of IDL, GDL, has this problem. I would Like to avoid this.
Yes, I agree with you regarding the VTK's consideration: it's a powerful toolkit but it is (maybe) too much "big", and it's not so easy to configure a working VTK environment.
I don't have a great experience in the field of graphs, but a search leads to this other StackOverflow post. I think that Prefuse, listed under the Java section, could be of some interest. C++ itself seems to have a lot of choices, listed in various answers, here. I hope that it will help.
I used Gephi public domain graph visualization software on Linux. It was a quick way to get a 3 D. Picture which can be modified with line thickness to show an edge weight - good for comm network work.
I am new to processing, i found it by searching for "draw with coding" , and i tried it, seems every time i modify the code, i have to stop and render again to get the final result
Is there any way to get updated graph without re-rendering? that can be much more convenient for creating simple figures.
if not, is there any alternative to processing that can draw a graph with coding?
I've used Tikz in Latex, but that is just for Latex, I want something that can let me draw a figure by coding, I've suffered enough though using software like coreldraw, it lacks the fundamental elegance of coding..
thanks alot！
Please have a look at the FluidForms libraries.
easy to setup
documentation and video tutorials
as long as you don't run into exceptions, live code comfortably
if you prefix public variables with param you also get sliders for free :)
Do check out the video tutorials, especially this one:
Also, if using Python isn't a problem I recommend having a look at:
NodeBox
Field
Python is a brilliant scripting language - which makes prototyping/'live coding' easy(although it can be compiled and it also plays nicely with c/c++) and is easy to pick up and a joy to use.
In Processing, you must re-run your program to see the changes (graphically), unless you write code to receive input from the user to dynamically adjust what you are drawing. For creating user interfaces there's for example the controlP5 library (http://www.sojamo.de/libraries/controlP5/).
It doesn't support "live coding" (at least that I know of).
You must re-run the code to see the new result.
If Live coding is what you're looking for, check out Fluxus (http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/) or Impromptu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impromptu_(programming_environment)
Currently i work a lot with different type of scheduling-algorithms and i'm always in need of something easy and nice to output the created example-schedules for presentations.
Before coding it my self im wondering if such a tool is already developed?
It should, as a minimum, take as input a CPU (Y-coordinate) and a start and duration time (X-coordinate) and preferbly produce HTML, Latex, PDF or similar. (A generic Gantt chart drawer should be sufficient)
It can either be a standalone tool that can be called with a task-set consisting of the three parameters - or able to interface with either C/C++ or Java.
Thanks!
I solved it by using JFreeChart. Thanks for the help
Have a look at GraphViz (graphviz.org) - we've used it with success for showing relationships between things, and there's PERL example of using it for GANTT charts (though I haven't used that myself) here: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=68941
I'd like to make an animation that illustrates the positions of some agents I'm simulating under Linux.
Basically, I have some files named file00001.dat, file00002.dat and so on.
I have to generate "something" that get files in order, and output an animated gif, a dynamic graph or whatever, that simulates the moving reading data from file.
I have control on the files, meaning that I can put identifiers or everything I want.
How would you achieve that? What programs would you use?
In linux, gnuplot is the old standby. And it can do animated gif's as well.
There are many choices, but in general matplotlib is a good one. It is a python library, so you have powerful libraries available to fine-tune or analyse your data set if you want to go beyond just quick plots. For very simple stuff you can always use the pyplot module from matplotlib that has many commands known from MATLAB or gnuplot.
For producing animations see this question.
As an added plus its default outputs are much better than e.g. gnuplot's or plotutils'.
Does anyone know how to draw queue network graphs that can be included within LaTeX documents?
See, e.g., the following examples at TeXample.net for the TikZ and PGF packages:
Graphs
Automata and Petri nets
Use METAPOST for your problem.
There are many ways to include drawings/graphs/images in your latex document.
The easiest way is just to draw the graph in your drawing program of choice, then export the graph to jpg or png (or eps if you're not using PDFlatex), then use the graphicx package ( \usepackage{graphicx} in your preamble), and include the graph in your document by using the code
\includegraphics[width=4in]{filename.jpg}
As indicated in other answers, there are several drawing languages that can be used with tex: metapost, tikz, and PGF are are powerful. There is also asymptote, another code based drawing language.
You could also use graphviz, which is excellent if your graph is large and you need graph something like network traffic. And dot2tex will turn your graphviz file into something latex can handle.