FSharpGephiStreamer: An idiomatic bridge between F# and network visualization
Kevin Schneider, Timo Mühlhaus · The Journal of Open Source Software · 2019
Network science empowers researcher across different disciplines to study complex relationships between a huge number of elements and reveal the underling wiring diagram of a system.Therefore, network visualization tools have become a very important component in various data analysis workflows (Barabási, 2011).Gephi is an open source software for explorative analysis and visualization of large-scale networks.It facilitates real-time visualizations and analysis to improve the exploratory process by high quality layout algorithms and intuitive user interface (Bastian, Heymann, & Jacomy, 2009).Due to universality of network science, their representation emerges of different data sources from nature or society.Therefore, the need to efficiently connect to rich information spaces and create complex repeatable workflows exceeds the capabilities of automation features in any point-and-click-based network visualization and analysis software available.The functional-first programming languages F# is specialized for type save information-rich programming and domain driven explorative programming (Don Syme, 2006) (Donald Syme, Battocchi, Takeda, Malayeri, & Petricek, 2013).This enables data collection, processing and analysis tasks leveraging the flexibility of the programming environments.