GraphConnect Lightning Talk: Project Planning Troubles? Graph Theory to the Rescue!

Project in Trouble?

GRAPHS TO THE RESCUE

Doug Auclair

for NCI, inc.

Washington, D.C.

The 4-slide Presentation

• Okay, what're we talkin' 'bout here?
• So, borin', amirite?
• The State of Graphs (at NCI)
• I can haz Linkies, plz

The Project/The Plan

• US Gov't project: Spreadsheet management
• The 'need': Okay, they don't know what they need
• The 'what they don't want': excitement
• What they got: DIS!

WHERE-D'AT, NCI?

• Project successes/progress:
• Gov't client: One delivery, on approved software list
• Commercial client: Our first, PoC-stage
• What we need, yo!

I CAN HAZ LINKIES?

• logicaltypes.com These slides
• twitter.com/geophf Daily Graph stock analysis at market close
• twitter.com/1HaskellADay Haskell problems/solutions; lotsa Data.Graph stuff

MORE THAN 4 PAGES

(What they had...)

(eww, spreadsheets, blah-bla-blah)

WHAT THEY GOT

(but under the covers)

(oooh! graphs!)

WHAT THEY GOT

WHAT THEY WANTED

(sigh, more spreadsheets)

(WITH the answers they needed, s'il vous plaît)

BUT THEY ALSO GOT

(sigh, spreadsheets)

(but showing data in ways they couldn't see before)

WHERE I'M GOING WITH THIS

This...

Unclustered, but colorized-by-algorithm data

... to this

Clustered data, represented colored-by-datum, and expandable-on-demand nodes