Allow soft partition groups

oxfordinternetinstitute / InteractiveVis

The InteractiveVis project, funded by JISC from May to September 2012, aims to allow easy creation of interactive visualisations for geospatial and network data using native web technologies (HTML5, CSS3, and SVG) and allow these visualisations to be self-contained so that they may run entirely offline in ebooks and other media. The project will survey existing solutions and build the necessary components to fill in missing features and smooth over incompatibilities in between existing libraries. The project will further provide online hosted wizards to allow for the easy creation of these interactive visualizations. All code is open source and released under the GNU GPL v3 license.

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Allow soft partition groups #42

Open computermacgyver opened 11 years ago

computermacgyver commented 11 years ago

It would sometimes be useful to have non-exclusive groups; if you have multiple boolean attributes for nodes, each of these could become a group. That would allow nodes to be in multiple groups, which I don't think is currently possible.

jthrilly commented 11 years ago

I agree that this would be useful. The problem is that it is not easily visually communicated. I have effectively implemented this for the KE network map for "resource highlighting" within the network, which is achieved with a series of boolean variables which share a common prefix. I then use toggles to highlight the nodes with that attribute by changing their colour. Unless we can think of a more graceful visual means of displaying multiple groups, I would suggest we might prioritise other features.

computermacgyver commented 11 years ago

Agreed that this is lower priority than the others. Good point "resource highlighting", however. We might bring this is as a dropdown so that it can scale to any number of categories.

I agree that this would be useful. The problem is that it is not easily visually communicated. I have effectively implemented this for the KE network map for "resource highlighting" within the network, which is achieved with a series of boolean variables which share a common prefix. I then use toggles to highlight the nodes with that attribute by changing their colour. Unless we can think of a more graceful visual means of displaying multiple groups, I would suggest we might prioritise other features.

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