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multinet-app / multilink

A node-link visualization built to work with the multinet ecosystem.
https://multinet.app
Apache License 2.0
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Give a more useful message when the network is too large to visualize #107

Open JackWilb opened 4 years ago

JackWilb commented 4 years ago

Currently we just say "use AQL", which will be unsatisfactory for less technical users. See comment for details.

(edited by @waxlamp to add): We should also consider whether redirecting the user to Multinet is the right thing to do. I think a better solution in general would be to allow the user to change some parameters in place: for a misspelled network name, we could just present a dropdown of existing networks. We could expand that to a general mechanism that allows for selecting both a workspace and a network. Then, the "sideloading" behavior would just be a special case of opening the app via query arguments. For "data too big" we could offer a ready made AQL query that samples the network down to the size limit by starting from a random or high-degree node. The associated error messages could then link to documentation for how to do this type of sampling, etc., yourself.

JackWilb commented 3 years ago

We should use Derya's querying interface here when it's fully built