This is the 2011 thread. Please, present yourself in the new topic for the 2012 program: https://forum.gephi.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1732
Apparently the link in the Questionnaire is wrong. I'll notify Sebastien about this. Sorry!
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My name is Quentin Lobbé. I'm a computer science student from the University of Technologie of Compiègne ( France ) where I followed course of data exploratory analysis. Now I'm in 4th semester and i'm working on data mining and graphical interface projects.
I’m really interested in working with abstract data ( geographical network, web interaction ), managing it and giving them new signification using statistical, graphical and cognitive tools ( Bertin and Tufte’s work ).
I first used Gephi to conduct a study of the visibility of the city of Compiègne through the web http://dmnpignaud.perso.sfr.fr/blogIC05.php . I used Gephi as a user. And then during my Intership ( at the Complex Systems Institute in Paris ), I used Gephi API and Tools to develop an interface. This interface goal was to explore and analyse, throught time and space, mobility networks ( using mobile phone data )https://github.com/lobbeque/TouristsFlowInParis .
Now i want to bring my contribution to the gephi project with this google summer of code. I think the legend project is interesting for me because, during my intership, I began making a plugin to add map in the preview module. So there are a lot of good ideas that i could be able to bring in this project.
A least, i’m not just a geek wich spend all his time behind his computer, i’m also filmmaker ( let's have a look http://youtu.be/N9naRbQcK2g
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I just discovered about GSoC, and would fit amazingly well with a project I've been thinking of since a while!
Few words on myself...
I'm currently a PhD student at the Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH/University Zurich, Switzerland. Although a biochemist by training, I have been working on the computational aspect of developing biological systems and actively contributed into different open source projects:
* development of a Java agent based software (Cortex3D) for the 3D simulation of biological development and growth (public alpha release at http://www.ini.uzh.ch/~amw/seco/cx3d/ and a publication of some simulations at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3233694/).
* I have started myself a new open source project for the interactive 3D segmentation of cell bodies in highly complex confocal volumes, consisting of Java plugins for ImageJ interfaced to native C++ code through JNI (for which we are prepearing a publication).
In brief, my project proposal is the development of an open source search and visualization tool based on graphs for scientific publications, whose aim is to make it easier, faster and more fun to browse the scientific literature. I'm quite disappointed by the current publication system, for which the importance of scientific articles is more correlated with the journal name, authors, and number of citations, than the papers real scientific value. I believe that the current browsing systems are inadequate, and the development of a transparent and intuitive tool to access citation networks would make a significant contribution to the scientific community.
My plan is to develop a citation retrieval system that would stream in real-time citation links from the Internet. This tool could be than interfaced with graphical visualization systems such as Gephi (I have not used Gephi before, but will dig into the code asap!). On this site I've seen quite some interest into dynamical graphs, which will be crucial for my project, and I'm looking for other people interested in participating
Best Regards,
Sabina
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My name is Patrick Dudas and I’m a 2nd year doctoral student at the University of Pittsburgh, where I received my master’s degree as well. I have an undergraduate degree from Westminster College, where I pursued a degree in physics in order to answer one specific question, “why?” This question was my inspiration in my past/present research in social networking which looked specifically at the sociological relationships between friends in a social networking environment in the construct of social capital and social development. Basically, “why do we friend the people we friend and what else can we gain from these interactions?” I utilize most of my data from Facebook and yes, I realize I am living the dream of a thesis based on using Facebook. I use Gephi to visualize this information and show various communities and their most influential nodes (friends) within those communities. I have few exciting and real-life application ideas that I would love to add to Gephi.
Even though this is my 4th year of graduate work, my research has been quite, let’s say, eclectic. I have experience in the creation of ontologies. I developed an ontology and algorithm for the creation of indoor navigation for people of special needs. Also, I’ve worked with our industrial engineering department developing Google Maps and Google Android applications for aiding in the dispersion of people during a natural disaster. Most of my researching time though was spent in genome research, where we patented algorithms, applications, and visual environments to find both the entropy and enthalpy values for all genes in a genome sequence, relative to their nearest neighbors and non-local genome buddies. My resume if you are interested in seeing more details.
I believe I can bring a lot to the team in the sense that I enjoy working with people, expressing my ideas to a group, and providing an optimistic attitude to a working environment. I enjoy the idea of utilizing Gephi to aid in socially positive research and believe that human center design is the most crucial part to any project (even to the degree that I’ve taught a class in this at Pitt).
I look forward to talking about ideas. I thank you for the opportunity!
Patrick
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My name is Tyler Waugh, I am a 2nd year Computer Science and Mathematics double major at North Carolina State University. This is my first year participating in the Summer of Code, I've been looking for a way to jump into more structured and larger coding projects. I learned about Gephi while looking for projects to apply to. It caught my eye because of Java, the language I'm most familiar with, and it peaked my interest in graph theory and visualizations.
Best reguards,
TSW
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My name is Hassan Radi. I am a 3rd year student at Computer Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt. Since my first year at college, I was dreaming to become part of the open source community. I managed to achieve that ambition: I now have two open source projects hosted on SourceForge.net, JPDF Export and JPDF Tools.
I have been coding with Java for almost three years so far. I have implemented many applications and almost worked with most of the API. I am planning to acquire the Oracle Certified Professional Java Programmer certificate during this year. I have also participated in programming contests such as: Code Jam, Top Coder and IEEE Extreme.
I first heared about Gephi this year while i was searching for projects in GSoC. I was very happy when I knew that Gephi has the two things that I like most, Java and Graphics.
BTW, this is my first year to participate in GSoC and I have only applied for Gephi project; so, fingers crossed.
Best Regards,
Hassan
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My name is Yudi Xue and am a second year M.Sc student in Computer Science at University of Saskatchewan in Canada. I am currently affiliated with the Interaction lab, at which we focus on research in the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Affective Gaming and Computer Supported Collaborative Workspace (CSCW).
The goal of my master's thesis is to investigate, build and evaluate a software system for collaborative simulation modeling. This led me to research in designing workspace for scientific collaboration, and integrating graph-based data visualization into the workspace. As part of my thesis project, I have also designed and implemented a component- based desktop system which has applied several J2EE server technologies including transactional management and pooled database connection. My knowledge in relevant area may become useful in building and optimizing visualization toolkit in the Gephi project.
Aside from work, I stay active snowboarding and playing basketball. I also enjoy traveling and backpacking during holidays.
I am eager to contribute to the Gephi project as a GSoC student in the summer. I would be happy to be engaged as a full-time participator and to discuss further detail in how I can accomplish this.
Regards,
Yudi
admin wrote:Hi students,
Welcome to Gephi GSoC program! I hope you're motivated to work on cutting edge technology for Network Science and graph visualization. Last year was really hard for us to select the best of you for only 4 slots allowed by Google. Hence to help us identifying you as a valuable candidate, please present yourself on this thread, then fill in this questionnaire and return it by email in plain text to gsoc@gephi.org.
This summer will be hot !
Deadline is April 8 (see the Timeline)
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My name is Daniel Bernardes, I'm a graduate student in LIP6 (Computer Science Lab at Paris 6 Univ.) in the ComplexNetworks team. More precisely I'm currently studying diffusion processes in large scale networks (e.g., files/memes/virus spreading in a P2P network). Before joining the team, I was a student at Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau/France) where I've got an engineering degree in applied math/cs. There I've worked on several academic projects, coded in Java and other languages.
I've came across Gephi since joining the LIP6, since my teammates are heavy users of graph visualization tools -- given the nature of our study. In fact this is one of my main motivations to contribute with this open-source project: to improve a critical tool which is complementary to our research. In particular, I'm interested in the Timeline player and movie creation proposal, since we are interested in investigating the evolution of dynamic graphs. From the Gephi perspective it might be interesting to have a coder with a clear application idea, to give testing feedback during the development.
For this edition of the GSoC I'm focusing exclusively on the Gephi proposal and it will be, hopefully, a great kickstart for me in the open-source community!
Cheers,
dB
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I'm Urban Škudnik and I'm a physics student at University of Ljubljana, which means my academic work is not very connected with Gephi and its aims. I do, however, have extensive experience with development ranging from writing websites to programming video encoding system.
I do websites with HTML5, making them super beautiful with the latest and greatest CSS3, at the same time raising a bar of user experience for everyday Joe with nice and fluffy Javascript and _always_ keeping visually impaired in mind by using ARIA technologies to assist them with their browsing experience.
On the slightly more serious and less PR (;)) note I have extensive experience with Python (development of backend web applications, video processing system, desktop applications, etc.) and Vala (desktop application), which I had to learn and start using in a month for last years GSOC in which I worked for Ubuntu for a project Deja Dup.
In my free time I have recently acquired an interest in distributed computing which led me to start tinkering with Erlang, Amazon's EC2 and Gearman. Nothin' to show yet though and still getting my head around everything properly.
On an occasion or two I have also given lectures to a local community, mostly on web-related technologies - I introduced WebGL and certain helper libraries to them.
My CV with a more detailed explanation of my previous professional work can be found here.
For this year I would like to help Gephi team to develop a network visualization library with WebGL, a proposal into which I was already interested last year but that was ultimately rejected by the team itself for being too bleeding edge. This was certainly true (arguably, at least to a degree, it still is) and it is understandable that priorities shifted to other projects. But as pointed out by mbastian in the forum thread, WebGL is getting maturer by the day and it will see wider adoption in near- to medium future, at which point using WebGL to draw graphs will be the only sensible thing.
Cheers,
Urban
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Feel free to play with Gephi with some datasets or map your facebook network before looking at the code.
You can then either fix a bug or code a new small feature. I advise to take an export plug-in on Fundry, as we need them and are a bit funded.
Cheers!
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my name is Ernesto Aneiros, I am an Engineering student in the United States planning to obtain a degree in Aerospace Engineering. I have been involved in coding competitions since High School and graph problems and algorithms are one of my favorite topics.
In the past year I worked as a Java Developer at a financial company developing internal support software and also trading software in which we used graph algorithms to analyze oil markets. During the research phase of this project I found Gephi as one of the leading projects related to graph visualization in the Java ecosystem.
For this year's GSOC, I am interested in working to bring Lucene indexing capabilities to Gephi and continue the work already started in the previous summer. My goal when I decided to enroll in GSOC was to get started in contributing to open source projects, get familiar with the process of working with the community, submitting patches, etc. and Gephi's Lucene project is an excellent opportunity for me to do so.
Best regards and happy summer coding!
Ernesto.
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I applied for GSOC last year, and the introduction I wrote in 2010 can be found as belows. I also had an English CV here :http://www.mildu.info/english/ You can get the pdf version here: http://www.mildu.info/wp-content/upload ... V_YiDu.pdf.
During GSOC 2010, I worked for the DSNI proposal. By doing that
*I gained some experiences on data processing and social network analysis.
*I learned a lot from @Sebastien and @Mathieu. They told me what is a good software architecture and what is a good UI design.
*Get familiar with Netbeans development, knowledge about Opensource license, etc.
I prepare to apply for Gephi again this year. I looked through the proposals listed, all of them are interesting. What I am interested in is Preview Refactoring and Timeline player.
I tried to do the force based edge bundling in GSOC 2010 and wrote a plan. I proposed to implement it in Graph view not Preview view, so most of them are helpless. But by doing that, I knew the algorithm well, which might be help. However, this year's proposal need to refactor the old Preview module, this might be difficult.
Telling about Timeline player proposal. This is a real interesting module. I looked through the related codes.
*I found the animation is not hard to implement, the core points are Timer and UI thread.
* As discussed, the unit and graduation is necessary. What I think now is an simple algorithm to initialize the unit and graduation, and allow user changing the unit at any time.
*The movie creation need an option panel, and movie creating toolkit(JMF as I know, because I implemented a min media player, and saw some related APIs).
*Some UI update is needed
Thank you very much for all your attention.
Yestin wrote:Hi all,
My Name is Yestin. It's my second year on my successive postgraduate and doctoral programs of study in Chinese Academy of Sciences now.
My research area is HCI, information visualization and sketch. During my R&D, I used a number of open-source project to do my favor. I used xstream to deal with XML files, jama to do matrix computation, JFreeChart and prefuse to display data and implement new algorithms. I used to use GEF(a framework based on Eclipse platform) to develop some graphic-edit based program and my graduation thesis(A pen-based graphical edit framework) is also based on it.
I often discuss problem I found on the forum and tell others the solution of the problem I met before. But I have not participate in any open-source project to do coding work. I want to do much more things for open-source community, and I found GSOC is a good opportunity for me to participate in. I am interest in the mentor way because he/she can help me to infuse quickly.
On the other side, I think the project I participate in is related to my recent work. I looked through the list and Gephi come into my eyes. Network visualization is an important part of infovis, and social network visualization is even hotter now. I am working on graph layout and combining, a novel tree layout algorithm has just been implemented using prefuse toolkit. In my view, Gephi is a graph visualization tool. It is developed in Netbeans in plug-in mode. I think it is easy to add new layout algorithm and any other new features.
I looked through the ideas of GSOC,I have confidence that I can do any of those things well:Dynamic attributes and statistics,Force-Directed Edge Bundling,Data Laboratory,Graph Streaming API,Direct Social Networks Import. I have downloaded the source of GSOC and I will read the docs and codes in detail. Not only for GSOC, but for further using.
I am familar with j2se. I often use swing or swt to develop interface of my program. Because of my IDE is Eclipse before, I am familar with plug-in develop mode too. To be honest, I seldom use Netbeans except for some small games based on j2me. But I think the IDE problem is easy to overcome.
Talking of new ideas about Gephi,I also think that using GPU to improve the performance of rendering is a good idea.Besides that, In my point of view, HCI techniques and cognitive theory can be thought of in the development of Gephi. For example, node text and edge text should resize while zooming the graph, if the node is too small, the text should not display even though the show text option is selected. I do not know whether these are help to the project:)
Thank you very much for your attention.
Yestin
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I'm Keheliya Gallaba, a 4th year Computer Science and Engineering student from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. I enjoy making people's lives easier, better and happier using technology.
Last year I had an internship at WSO2 Inc, working with WS-BPEL, Apache ODE and Eclipse plugin development. Here's a tutotrial I wrote related to that.I have created a Mozilla Firefox add-on in javascript to convert Sinhala Non Unicode Web sites to Unicode. I'm very enthusiastic about infographics and data visualization. Here's a bundle of blogs I excessively read to learn about information visualization. That's how I got to know about gephi last year. I use gephi, GraphViz and few javascript libraries like protovis, infovis to do fun projects in the weekends.
I have contributed to GraphViz Java API with patches. I have submitted fixes for issues like 629374 and 604510 in Gephi as well. You can find my branch of gephi in launchpad here, where I have started experimenting with 'Integrate Web Browser' idea. I'm interested in 'Web-based network visualization with WebGL' and 'Automated build & Maven' ideas for GSoC 2011. I selected these ideas because of my passion to learn new technologies like WebGL and my experience with existing visualization libraries and build tools like Maven and Ant.
With the help of very friendly community of Gephi developers, I'm inspired to contribute to free software this summer and make a mark
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I am Vojtech Bardiovsky, a computer science masters student. My main study area is Discrete Algorithms, which includes sub-areas such as graph theory and data structures.
I have done a lot of projects in Java, the last noticeable one was a part of my Bachelors thesis and was a cellular automata simulator. Here I needed to design a good framework as it was a big project. The application works well, but I am not really satisfied with the framework and I wouldn't even call it good. That is one of the reasons for choosing Gephi: it is built on Netbeans Platform and I've always wanted to work with it, but never had time to get the most of it.
As for the GSoC, I am interested in working on the New Visualization Engine. I have experience with JOGL and even more with OpenGL (with C++).
What I like the most about Gephi is: it is really nice, it is useful and easy to work with and it has modular (and clean) design allowing anybody to contribute easily (importers, layout algorithms).
Vojtech
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Welcome to Gephi GSoC program! I hope you're motivated to work on cutting edge technology for Network Science and graph visualization. Last year was really hard for us to select the best of you for only 4 slots allowed by Google. Hence to help us identifying you as a valuable candidate, please present yourself on this thread, then fill in this questionnaire and return it by email in plain text to gsoc@gephi.org.
This summer will be hot !
Deadline is April 8 (see the Timeline)
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I'm Joshua Cole, an aspiring statistician and programmer.
As you might have inferred already, I have an interest in statistics. In the past I've analyzed the results of a Google programming competition. Right now I'm reading through Edward Tufte's book “The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.” In the future I hope to be working with Gephi to produce web-based network visualizations.
I think a good first step in tackling this problem might be going through some high-quality lessons I found through Hacker News and leveraging what I learn to get a working prototype. I'll wait until I learn more before further speculation.
You probably want to know whether I can handle this project. I probably can. Though I'm a computer science major, I do have a bit of practical experience.
I tend to do a lot of personal projects outside the classroom:- Hacker Archives
- Language: Clojure
- This site scrapes content from Hacker News into a searchable and editable wiki. It is still under developmental and I would appreciate if it wasn't shared beyond this forum until I finish integrating markdown.
- Personal Site
- Language: Clojure
- This site lists some of the projects I've worked on. I'm trying to use it to take some control over my web presence.
Keep in mind that this doesn't actually show all the things I've done. I don't share the things I'm still working on.
- Find Function
- Language: Clojure
- This is my only contribution to an open source project. It is an IRC bot plugin that finds functions based on their input and output.
For example if you were to typeit would returnCODE:
find_fn 1 2 3because 1 + 2 = 3.CODE:
add
The plugin has been very well received. It is used frequently in #clojure and has been merged into the bot proper.
- Extendable
- Language: C++
- This is a question and answer bot I built for my uncle. It runs on a proprietary video chat protocol that made C++ the best choice.
The existing question and answer bots for this protocol required a new program to be written for each new game. When my uncle asked me to write him a bot that didn't currently exist I took it upon myself to write an infinite number of bots. A new program per bot every time he wanted a new game didn't sound very appealing to me.
Thus, the project name. When you toss this program a Q&A file it generates a new game, complete with score tracking, admin functions, permission rules, and settings.
- Rater
- Language: Python
- Rater doesn't have a link, but it is pretty awesome. It isn't launched mainly due to a fear of success outlined below. It is my attempt at creating a better RateMyProfessor and it scratched an itch.
Though built with Django and capable of narrowing the results through full-text search, neither of these features are why I love this program. I love it for the insight which produced it.
If you ask a student to rank their teachers from best to worst it might seem like you just have a list of teachers, but you have more than that. You can trivially create a list of ordering-preserved pairs of teachers. The cool insight is that such a pair can actually be thought of as a match in a game. So that is how I thought of them. This opened the way to using the Elo algorithm to determine teaching ability.
It worked out pretty well in testing, but as I mentioned earlier I was a little afraid of success. Assuming the application got popular it would result in the students using the site snagging the best teachers, with the worst teachers as leftovers. I'm just not sure that inflicting that sort of bias on the education system is wise. I mean it seems cool, but what if your the guy eating the leftovers?
- Anagram Scramble
- Language: Python
- This site is pretty simple. Users race to unscramble words. Word info is fetched so people can expand their vocabulary while playing. It supports concurrent users and keeps track of scores if you register.
- Chess
- Language: Java
- This is the only project worth mentioning that I did as part of my coursework. It was a two person self-directed final project for an Intro to Java class. My partners task was to handle the rules while I handled the GUI and networking. He didn't do anything, but my contribution earned us both an A.
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My name is Luiz Gustavo Cardoso Ribeiro. I'm a Computer Engineering student in Brazil, currently in the senior year. Graph theory is one of my favorite computer science areas (my undergraduate thesis is related to journey planning) and hence my interest in Gephi.
Even though I usually write code in C++, I've been a Java programmer for about 5 years (learned Java just before I was a freshman on college) and I have a lot of programming experience and algorithmic background, because I've been participating on programming contests (ACM-ICPC, TopCoder, etc) since high school. Besides C, C++ and Java, I also have experience with Python.
I've found Gephi about two weeks ago, while searching for graph visualization tools for my undergraduate thesis and I've been using it since then.
I'm really interested in participating on Summer of Code this year, and since my undergraduate thesis is related to graph theory, it would be very exciting to work on Gephi.
From the official proposals, I'm mainly interested on moving Gephi's build system to Maven or on porting the Gython language as a console plugin to Gephi (although I'm used with Python, I have no experience with Gython and GUESS yet, but I'm sure I won't have any issues learning it).
Also, I think that Gephi would be benefited if it had a Blueprints implementation, since the Gremlin graph traversal language could be used for querying the graph structures created with Gephi. But I'm not sure if that would go along with Gephi's goals on this year's GSoC (working on core improvements).
Best Regards,
Luiz Ribeiro
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