Giving the power of the graph to the user

TechInMotionSF @ Quid Joey Hobbs

Inside and out, Quid is all about the graph

I’ll be talking about…

• An overview of graphs

• What Quid does differently, in graph terms

• A demonstration using Quid

What is a graph?

• A graph is not a chart

• A set of things (nodes or vertices)

• A set of links which connect these things (edges)

A simple example

A simple example

nodes = web pageslinks = hyperlinks

The result

Facebook’s Social Graph

Netflix Prize Graph VisualizationSource: http://abeautifulwww.com/

• Graphs are often used, but not often exposed

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• The graph structure itself contains a lot of information

• We allow the user to define a set of things!

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• We compute links between these things by analyzing text!

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• The user then explores the graph directly

Quid’s Technology

Demo: what does the data visualization technology landscape look like?

Thank you for listening