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- Messing around wih D3.js and hierarchical data
These days there are a lot of browser-oriented visualization toolkits, such d3.js or jit.js. They’re great and easy to use, but how much do they scale when used with medium-large or very large datasets? The subject ontology is a quite large (~2500 entities) taxonomical classification developed at Nature Publishing Group in order to classify scientific […]
- Using Django-MPTT: lessons learned…
Here we are again with Django and MPTT 0.3 (I already have other posts about it). After working with it for a bit I realized that things were breaking mysteriously, and only recently understood why that happened, so I thought I’d share this pearl of wisdom. Essentially this has to do with the way tree-elements […]
- Django admin and MPTT #2
This is a follow up to the previous post on managing and visualizing trees using django. I’ve been using MPTT quite a bit now and it’s great – also, I looked deeper into the admin integration (basically, the issue of being able of manage trees from within the admin). The major issue I had with […]
- Representing hierarchical data with Django and MPTT
Apparently, you’ve got two options for managing hierarchical data in django – django-mptt and django-treebeard. I didn’t have any time to test both of them carefully, so I just played a bit with the first one (and with great results!). [p.s. the comparison table above is not mine, but I found it quite useful. Click […]
Parerga und Paralipomena / At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded – Wittgenstein
