Dive into a sea of connections, where once hidden insight becomes visible.
This immersive Virtual Reality (VR) software enables you to visualize and understand complex social, physical, and digital networks as they evolve over time. Interact with your network data. Discover patterns and anomalies that are difficult to detect with static 2D graphical displays or data analytics.
Ask better questions of your network data.
“If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask… for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.”
Networks represent the connected reality of our lives. Visualization facilities inquiry of this reality. It is an immensely intuitive way to systematically explore networks and make sense of them. Visualizing your networks helps you determine the proper questions to ask.
A better way to tell the story.
Humans are visual creatures. It’s the most natural way we process information. That makes network visualization a great way to tell your story. Virtual Reality is the best way to tell your story by immersing you and your audiences in an evolving 3D world and interacting with your network data.
Developed by experts in network science and virtual reality at the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business and School for Environment and Sustainability.
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When connections matter, LinkingGlass is here.
A network is a set of nodes and connections. Nodes can be people, organizations, or things. Connections can be whatever links these nodes—interactions, workflows, communication, resource transfers, shipments, joint activities, and so on.
Visualizing a network as a static 2D image is simple. But this image—like a still photograph—doesn’t tell you the whole story. Real networks are dynamic. They shift and change. They evolve over time. Nodes exit the network, new nodes enter. Connections form and dissolve. New connections are made.
That’s what a temporal network is—a dynamic network that evolves over time. That’s where LinkingGlass comes in. It’s a movie instead of a still photograph. Even more, it’s a movie that you immerse yourself in and interact with. With LinkingGlass, you enter the virtual world of networks and see them as they really are.
