We have already seen listings and treemaps at Macro.Scopia. But now It allows you to plot the data as a graph, with nodes showing elements and arcs showing relationships. It could be very useful to plot tagged elements, like articles from a blog or any other dinamic webs.

The purpose of this new Macro view is to show a few connected elements at the beggining, and then let you navigate by clicking on the nodes you are interested in. Full information about the elements can be seen just by clicking on the label of the nodes.

In order to show you the capabilities of this Macro, we have made a view of the current news posted at http://meneame.net, an important Spanish news site. We get the information from the rss feed and then visualize it, both articles and categories (tags), as nodes. Therefore, the arched lines between them show how they are related with each other.

Click on the image to execute the Macro.

Notice the list at the left top side of the view. Seldom, one of these graphs will be fully connected. Instead you will get a graph with a some few islands of connected nodes. To switch between them, just click on the elements of this list. Of course, we have a Macro behind that you can see clicking here.

The tutorial about this new features is still in progress. Coming soon for you to build your own graphs.

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