IVLG: Interactive Visualization of Large Graphs

There has been significant effort in recent years to explore and navigate very large linked datasets, due to the increase of their availability. Many techniques have been developed that extract the information from such datasets and present it to the user as diagrams, while others take advantage of the hierarchies of the datasets to filter and aggregate them, allowing the users to access specific information. In order to overcome the limitations regarding the volume of the presented information, we have developed a novel technique that enables the interactive visualization as one continuous graph of datasets with millions of elements. IVLG is a fully fledged prototype system that implements this technique based on a client-server architecture, enabling many users to have concurrently access to the information through a user-friendly interface. It allows the user to navigate the dataset through different levels of abstraction and locate information using innovative exploration techniques. A carefully designed storage schema along with an API that takes advantage of the appropriate indexing handles datasets with millions of elements without raising any performance issues, even when accessed from devices with limited computational resources. The proposed demonstration showcases the advantages and technical features of IVLG. A series of demonstration scenarios will show how IVLG can adapt accordingly and handle diverse real and synthetic datasets that vary on size and average node degree and how the system functionalities support the user experience and the exploration of the information.