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Questions tagged [visualization]

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Diagram to show code responsibility

Does anyone know how to visually diagram the ways in which the flow of control in code passes between code produced by different groups and how that affects the amount of code that needs to be carefully written/reviewed/tested for system properties…
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Graph visualization algorithm

I need a 2d or 3d graph visualization algorithm by which adding/removing a node or a relationship does not have a butterfly effect on the positions of other nodes. (We are talking about a directed cyclic graph with weighted nodes and relationships…
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Visualizing temperature levels across a city

I have a list of temperature levels (0 - 30 degrees) in different parts of a city. I would like to visualize the different temperature levels in the different parts of the city. Hot places should be displayed in red and cold ones blue. If the user…
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How to visualize a Stream object (and some other data types)?

I want to make a small programming tutorial which will have a number of images visualizing various data types, but I am not sure how to draw these images of the data types. Assume that I have a FileOutputStream object that writes to the file…
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Building a Graph Editor - How to create a data driven graph

I am developing a graph-editor that uses drag and drop to build hierarchical graphs (containing nodes and links). Each node in the graph should be linked to a table in our database (SQL Server). I did a lot of research about libraries based on…
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Hash Algorithm Randomness Visualization

I'm curious if anyone here has any idea how the images were generated as shown in this response: Which hashing algorithm is best for uniqueness and speed? Ian posted a very well-received response but I can't seem to understand how he went about…
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Visualizing a CUP grammar

I am implementing a grammar in CUP, and it would often be helpful to see everything at a glance. This could also be useful in finding errors quickly. Are there any programs out there that will visualize grammar in the CUP syntax? Or can you think of…
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How to properly diagram lambda expressions or traversals through them in Architecture Explorer?

I'm exploring a piece of code in Architecture Explorer in Visual Studio 2010 to study the relations between methods. I noticed a strange behavior. Take the following source code. It generates a hello message based on a template and a template…
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Modelling project structure for Management

The project I am putted in is running awful. :-) Main Problem is a missing architecture and a missing guidline how to organize projects. In this case I have done a sample project architecture with UML class and component diagrams and layer diagrams.…
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What is (are) the most useful technique/visualization for overall project status?

For reasons "above my pay grade", we're developing an issue/project tracking system where I work (similar to Trac, FogBugz, etc). The managers want a useful tool to be able to track the overall health of the project (e.g. How much time left, how are…
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Visualizing a complex software application

Question What is a good way to go about visualizing a complex software application? Are recommended software applications that can be used for this purpose? Background About 3 years ago, I started building a web data mining application. Started out…
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Data visualisation application for WPF and MVVM

I was wondering what is the best approach for a Data visualisation application for WPF and MVVM The key points are: The data is loaded, or needs just a little preparation such as pulling out particular set of data from the underlying structure. The…
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Detecting massive classes that are good candidates for refactoring

Does anyone know of any tool that would help find classes that are taking on too much responsibility? E.g. By visualizing a file's size compared to the other files in the code base, it can be easy to spot massive classes that should probably be…
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NCurses, scrolling of multiline items, "current item" pointer and "selected items"

I am looking for hints/ideas for the best (most effective) way on how to scroll multi-line items as well as emphasizing of the "current item" and "selected items" such as: 1 FOO ITEM 1 Foo sub-item 2 Foo sub-item 3 Foo sub-item 2 BAR ITEM 1…
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Testing of visualization projects

We develop small to large visualization projects for different tasks and industries and sometimes while rewriting them a couple of times in the process we hit walls because we discover that we need to add a lot of code to support new requirements.…
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