Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara have developed a new tool capable of interactively visualizing millions of connected entities, natively in a web browser, without any plugins. For the end user, the experience is similar to a Java Applet or other dynamic web technology, but without the inherent scalability limitations of client-side processing. The novel approach results in a smooth, interactive, real-time animation based on mouse movements in the browser.  

File Number: 19861 

Web site: http://techtransfer.universityofcalifornia.edu/...

Other Information:

Background

Recently, there has been an increase in activity on social web sites and many other online communities. Such sites produce rich network data, which can be very large scale and difficult to analyze. Most searches on the web are conducted using text, which has several limitations. The best tools available at the moment can only visualize hundreds (in some case thousands) of nodes before they slow to unusable states.