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medialab / minivan

Web interface for network analysis.
https://medialab.github.io/minivan
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Provide users with suggestions for uploading json files #27

Open jwyg opened 5 years ago

jwyg commented 5 years ago

We recently had a workshop at KCL to test and explore the use of MiniVAN in the context of teaching.

One of the areas where the students needed support was in uploading the data bundle, i.e. between these two steps:

  1. MiniVan Maker. Upload a GEXF network, tune settings, get a data bundle.
  2. Get the URL. Give your data bundle's URL, get a MiniVan URL. You need to host the data bundle somewhere.

We wondered whether we could (for example) add some recommendations/instructions for uploading the bundle? Are there any suitable external services which could link to? We didn't have time in the context of the class to introduce using Github on top of everything else, so any tips would be great!

If useful I'd also be happy to help with documentation and guidance for the tool.

jwyg commented 4 years ago

@Yomguithereal I encountered this issue again today in a class. Perhaps one interim solution would be to upload some brief instructions to this page? https://medialab.github.io/minivan/#/maker

If that works I'd be happy to draft something. What do you think are the best options apart from Github?

Yomguithereal commented 4 years ago

Hello @jwyg. We usually use GitHub's gists or Netlify Drop (for a temporary solution). But I thought the video tutorial on the homepage was covering the upload? But I may be wrong.

daisyjwest commented 4 years ago

The instructions below helped me work out how to upload a data bundle to miniVAN in order to share a Gephi graph with other students for a group project at university:

  1. Export GEFX file from Gephi (file > save as > select file extension from menu)
  2. Prepare a “data bundle” (JSON file) here: https://medialab.github.io/minivan/#/maker
  3. Then upload this to Github (e.g. some examples here: https://github.com/jwyg/data/ )
  4. Then you get a URL by right clicking on “RAW” in the uploaded file and putting that URL here:https://medialab.github.io/minivan/#/start
  5. You should then be able to give the resulting URL to your classmates to browse and explore.