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by simonsarris 688 days ago
As someone who's made graphing libraries for over a decade: Are you sure you want to visualize 1 billion nodes? What's the essential thing you're trying to see?

Visualizations are great at helping humans parse data, but usually they work best at human scales. A billion nodes is at best looking at clouds, rather than nodes, which can be represented otherwise.

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I have a slightly different use case. I have a dependency graph of tasks with each task having some attached info in form key value pairs. I want to be able to easily visualize the complete graph but then filter out stuff using conditions on attached info. The filtering should hide there nodes/tasks in graph and auto-resize display. What would be a good solution to this?
My library (https://gojs.net) can do that easily. Give it a look, and if you think the price is acceptable for your project, contact us and we can make you a proof-of-concept.