Hi

I am extremely new to processing, but hoping to get some mileage out of it on a number of fronts that I am pursuing.

Right now I am wondering if anyone can describe schematically how maps of networks are created. I have seen them all over the place including search engines that visualize relationships and social groups...A good example is the theyrule website...There are alot of them out there. I would like to make my own diagrams that illustrate large quantities of objects with attributes, and then dynamically rearrange the visualization to highlight a user chosen property. This, I presume is way beyond the grasp os someone new to processing, but if I were to start, where would that be? Is there an open source code, or even any programs out there that can help me? I can imagine that the data being fed to the mini-app would come from a database of some sort...I know little about databases as well...

Any advice is really appreciated!
thanks
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thanks. that's a really good start. I will have to look into it.

but if I want the dataset to be my own, and I want the functionality to be along the lines of a "MS Office PivotDiagram" where you can display the same data in a number of different ways, ie sorting accoring to different attributes, is there anything else out there?