Toolkit - Metrics over time

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This Toolkit Example is part of the toolkit-demos project, that can be download from the website.

Demo Metric

This demo main aim is to show how to execute a metric on a dynamic graph.

It does the following steps:

  • Create a project and a workspace, it is mandatory.
  • Generate a random graph into a container.
  • Append this container to the main graph structure.
  • Create a 'date' column (a simple INT between 1990 and 2010) and set random values for each node.
  • Use the Data Laboratory merge strategy to convert this column to a real time interval column.
  • Get a DynamicGraph and count the number of nodes for each year. That shows how to get the subgraph for a particular period.
  • Put the result into a dynamic data structure, that shows how to store result associated to a particular period.
  • Create a InOutDegree metric, execute it for each year and collect the results in a dynamic data structure.

Instead of generating a random 'static' graph and add a fake date column, a dynamic network can be imported with the GEXF file format.

The demo shows how to get a DynamicGraph instance, and get sub graphs for a particular time period. Note that the dynamic graph maintains only one sub graph at one time, so keeping multiple Graph instances for further analysis won't work. 

    //Init a project - and therefore a workspace
    ProjectController pc = Lookup.getDefault().lookup(ProjectController.class);
    pc.newProject();
    Workspace workspace = pc.getCurrentWorkspace();
 
    //Generate a new random graph into a container
    Container container = Lookup.getDefault().lookup(ContainerFactory.class).newContainer();
    RandomGraph randomGraph = new RandomGraph();
    randomGraph.setNumberOfNodes(500);
    randomGraph.setWiringProbability(0.005);
    randomGraph.generate(container.getLoader());
 
    //Append container to graph structure
    ImportController importController = Lookup.getDefault().lookup(ImportController.class);
    importController.process(container, new DefaultProcessor(), workspace);
 
    //Add a fake 'Date' column to nodes
    AttributeModel attributeModel = Lookup.getDefault().lookup(AttributeController.class).getModel();
    AttributeColumn dateColumn = attributeModel.getNodeTable().addColumn("date", AttributeType.INT);
 
    //Add a random date to all nodes - between 1990 and 2010
    GraphModel graphModel = Lookup.getDefault().lookup(GraphController.class).getModel();
    Graph graph = graphModel.getGraph();
    Random random = new Random();
    for (Node n : graph.getNodes()) {
        Integer randomDataValue = new Integer(random.nextInt(21) + 1990);
        n.getNodeData().getAttributes().setValue(dateColumn.getIndex(), randomDataValue);
    }
 
    //Use the Data laboratory merge strategy to convert this Integer column to the TimeInterval column
    AttributeColumnsMergeStrategiesController dataLabController = Lookup.getDefault().lookup(AttributeColumnsMergeStrategiesController.class);
    dataLabController.mergeNumericColumnsToTimeInterval(attributeModel.getNodeTable(), dateColumn, null, 1990, 2010);
 
    //Use the DynamicModel dynamic graph factory
    DynamicModel dynamicModel = Lookup.getDefault().lookup(DynamicController.class).getModel();
    DynamicGraph dynamicGraph = dynamicModel.createDynamicGraph(graph);
 
    //Get the number of nodes for each period of one year - and store it in a proper data structure
    DynamicInteger numberofNodes = new DynamicInteger();
    for (int i = 1990; i < 2009; i++) {
        int low = i;
        int high = i + 1;
        Graph subGraph = dynamicGraph.getSnapshotGraph(low, high);
        int count = subGraph.getNodeCount();
        numberofNodes = new DynamicInteger(numberofNodes, new Interval<Integer>(low, high, count));   //DynamicInteger is immutable
    }
 
    //Get all intervals and print values
    System.out.println("Number of nodes:");
    for (Interval<Integer> interval : numberofNodes.getIntervals(Double.NEGATIVE_INFINITY, Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY)) {
        int low = (int) interval.getLow();
        int high = (int) interval.getHigh();
        System.out.println(low + "-" + high + "  ->  " + interval.getValue());
    }
 
    //Create a InOutDegree metric to get the average degree for each time interval
    InOutDegree inOutDegree = new InOutDegree();
 
    //Compute the metric for each subgraph and put result in a DynamicDouble
    DynamicDouble averageDegree = new DynamicDouble();
    for (int i = 1990; i < 2009; i++) {
        int low = i;
        int high = i + 1;
        Graph subGraph = dynamicGraph.getSnapshotGraph(low, high);
        inOutDegree.execute(subGraph, attributeModel);
        double result = inOutDegree.getAverageDegree();
        averageDegree = new DynamicDouble(averageDegree, new Interval<Double>(low, high, result));
    }
 
    //Get all intervals and print values
    System.out.println("Average degree:");
    for (Interval<Double> interval : averageDegree.getIntervals(Double.NEGATIVE_INFINITY, Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY)) {
        int low = (int) interval.getLow();
        int high = (int) interval.getHigh();
        System.out.println(low + "-" + high + "  ->  " + interval.getValue());
    }
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