PGX.UI: Visual Construction and Exploration of Large Property Graphs

Julia Kindelsberger, Daniel Langerenken, Malte Husmann, Korbinian Schmid, Hassan Chafi

2017

Abstract

Transforming existing data into graph formats and visualizing large graphs in a comprehensible way are two key areas of interest of information visualization. Addressing these issues requires new visualization approaches for large graphs that support users with graph construction and exploration. In addition, graph visualization is becoming more important for existing graph processing systems, which are often based on the property graph model. Therefore this paper presents concepts for visually constructing property graphs from data sources and a summary visualization for large property graphs. Furthermore, we introduce the concept of a graph construction time line that keeps track of changes and provides branching and merging, in a version control like fashion. Finally, we present a tool that visually guides users through the graph construction and exploration process.

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Kindelsberger J., Langerenken D., Husmann M., Schmid K. and Chafi H. (2017). PGX.UI: Visual Construction and Exploration of Large Property Graphs . In Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 3: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2017) ISBN 978-989-758-228-8, pages 305-310. DOI: 10.5220/0006231603050310


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@conference{ivapp17,
author={Julia Kindelsberger and Daniel Langerenken and Malte Husmann and Korbinian Schmid and Hassan Chafi},
title={PGX.UI: Visual Construction and Exploration of Large Property Graphs},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 3: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2017)},
year={2017},
pages={305-310},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006231603050310},
isbn={978-989-758-228-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 3: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2017)
TI - PGX.UI: Visual Construction and Exploration of Large Property Graphs
SN - 978-989-758-228-8
AU - Kindelsberger J.
AU - Langerenken D.
AU - Husmann M.
AU - Schmid K.
AU - Chafi H.
PY - 2017
SP - 305
EP - 310
DO - 10.5220/0006231603050310