How many directed graph nodes are typically represented in the browser? I'm working with some large data-sets with nodes and edges more then 400,000. I'm wondering if I am going down a fruitless path trying to represent them in the browser via arbor.js or similar JS libraries. What's the most effective way to allow a large number(large relative to my domain of real estate transactions, maybe 1-10,000) of users to visualize and browse a large directed graph of up to 500,000 records?
Reasonable Number of Directed Graph Nodes and Edges
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Limiting what is shown on screen is a necessity with that large of a graph, not only for performance reasons, but you would cause information overload for users. depending on how this information is used there are a few different way to determine what to display.If you need to show how to get from A to B.Show only nodes and edges on the best path(s) however best is determined.If users need to navigate from node to node.show only current node and connected nodes.Optionally only show incoming/outgoing connections