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by baldeagle 649 days ago
I hate to ask this question.... but I've moved to a python shop after working in the tidyverse for years, and am unimpressed with the DAG visualization capabilities. Does anyone have any recommendations for 1,000 plus node DAGs?

I still miss R and tidy quite a bit, but polars at least gets closer.

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There are some tools for larger renderings. I've had success with Graphics but have you tried Gephi https://gephi.org/
I can confirm Gephi handles 1000+ just fine: I used it to solve Adventure of Code problem.
I'm working on a python library for Vizdom to be released later this year, but in the mean time, you can use this python library which uses Graphviz under the hood.

- https://diagrams.mingrammer.com/

I will give that a try. Thank you very much :)
Any of the python network science libraries can handle a 1000 node directed graph no problem.

Networkx visualizations are ugly out of the box but you can make the network look however you want. The best out of the box visualizations I think are a matter of taste and use case. Same with the layouts.

In a more abstract sense, I think it is hard to not have a 1000 node network visualization not be a useless hairball unless the network is quite sparse.

If you mean with do-calculus though I really have no idea.