/etc/groups : A Network Graphical Browser
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" /etc/groups ( http://etc-groups.sf.net/ ) is a web application made with prefuse for the visualization of big sets of data, mainly aimed at visualizing groups and organizations and the relations between them. It has been developped in the context of the memory project, a project to analyze social movements who participated to social forums. It offers features of data filtering and a graphical search engine, that makes it useful for using it as a yellow page directory. It evolved to its version 1.0 from which it's capable to visualize many types of networks : networks of individuals, projects, ... giving the possibility to the user to define its own data structures and to fill them on-line. It also offers, from this version on, several types of layouts : geographical, radial, force directed or random." in the context of software development, it can be used to make a map of communities and web ressources ( like pd patches and externals ) showing the relations between individuals and/or ressources.
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perl, mysql, java/prefuse