News
2024
Event
Gephi Week 2024
We meet with the Gephi developers. We integrate the connected-closeness metric in Gephi Lite. We plan altogether the Gephi website update, and we debug Gephi Lite.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Blog
Testing in a Headless Browser
A guide to unit testing and benchmarking TypeScript libraries targeting the browser from the command line
Alexis Jacomy
Production
HOPPE-Droit
This version, as part of our maintenance contract, adds the management of collections and updates the code dependencies.
Production
Lasso
A new version that adds sound and image management to the exploration tool.
Renew our understanding of urban sonor landscapes
Blog
A fresh new version of sigma.js
After a year and a half of development, we are finally releasing the 3.0 version.
OuestWare
Blog
The release of Gephi Lite v0.4
A new version from our Talk Driven Development iteration
OuestWare
Release
Gephi Lite v0.4
It's mostly about maintenance, but it also allows displaying images in nodes.
Production
GraphCommons
A new version with server-side rendering, which improves, among other things, search engine optimization.
Event
FOSDEM 2024
Our yearly belgian tour, and a new occasion to meet people from OSRD and Sciences-Po médialab. Paul helps managing the Open Research room, and we have two presentations.
Brussels, Belgium
Conference
Bridging Research and Open Source: The Genesis of Gephi Lite
Paul Girard, Alexis Jacomy, and Benoit Simard
Brussels, Belgium
Conference
Bending geographic maps for enhanced railway space-time diagrams
Alexis Jacomy
Brussels, Belgium
Blog
FOSDEM 2024
Join us at the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting aka FOSDEM
OuestWare
2023
Event
OSRD project launch
An internal SNCF event introduces the various OSRD business tools to the first users.
Paris, France
OSRD: Open Source Railway Designer
Production
Bibliograph
This tool, with a well-defined scope, is published after an initial sprint with the client, followed by a few rapid iterations.
Release
Gephi Lite v0.3
This version mainly introduces graph search and the caption module. More details in this Twitter thread.
Publication
Network exploration on the web: an interview with Gephi Lite
OuestWare and Public Data Lab
Production
Lasso
The first version already has almost all of the functionalities.
Renew our understanding of urban sonor landscapes
Release
Gephi Lite v0.1
The first working prototype of Gephi Lite. The release was rather confidential.
Event
FOSDEM 2023
Our yearly belgian tour, and a new occasion to meet people from OSRD and Sciences-Po médialab. Paul helps managing the Open Research room, but we don't present anything that year.
Brussels, Belgium
Conference
Better Engineer-Researcher Collaborations Though Data Control
Paul Girard
Brussels, Belgium
2022
Production
GraphCommons
This entirely revamped beta version of GraphCommons took more than a year to develop.
Event
Gephi Week 2022
We meet with the Gephi community. Benoit helps update the Neo4J connector, Alexis helps to develop a plugin for Retina export, and Paul helps to advance the specifications of the GEXF format. Also, we are starting to envision Gephi Lite.
Paris, France
Conference
Studying Signs of Use in Medieval Manuscripts: data collection through annotations
David F. Johnson, Paul Girard, and Benoit Simard
Digital Humanities 2022, Tokyo, Japan
Release
Sigma.js v2.0
The first sigma.js version based on Graphology.
OuestWare and Sciences-Po médialab
Publication
L’atelier de méthodes de Sciences Po : apprendre, aider, rassembler
Diego Antolinos-Basso, Audrey Baneyx, Héloïse Thero, Benjamin Ooghe, and Paul Girard
Humanités numériques, Enseigner et apprendre les humanités numériques
Publication
Exploring the Transformation of French Trade in the Long Eighteenth Century (1713–1823): The TOFLIT18 Project
Loïc Charles, Guillaume Daudin, Paul Girard, and Guillaume Plique
Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History
Production
Archelec
This new version brings the data visualizations page and various fine tunings.
Explore the french elections candidates' professions of faith since 1958
Event
FOSDEM 2022
An online edition of FOSDEM due to the COVID19 epidemic. Paul co-organizes and hosts the Open Research Tools and Technologies room.
online
2021
Release
React Sigma v1.0
The "official" library to use sigma.js within React based applications.
Benoit Simard
Release
Retina
An open-source tool to share network visualizations online, sponsored by the Centre Internet et Société.
Event
Sigma.js v2.0 sprint
With the people from the Sciences-Po médialab, we are meeting for a few days in Nantes to finalize version 2.0 of sigma.js. We are also taking the opportunity to completely redo the website and the code examples.
Nantes, France
Publication
How many countries in the world? The geopolitical entities of the world and their political status from 1816 to the present
Béatrice Dedinger and Paul Girard
Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History
Production
Archelec
The first version includes the search engine as well as the "professions of faith" pages.
Explore the french elections candidates' professions of faith since 1958
Event
FOSDEM 2021
An online edition of FOSDEM due to the COVID19 epidemic. Paul co-organizes and hosts the Open Research Tools and Technologies room.
online
2020
Blog
Some new visualizations for the RICardo project
Why and how to visualize 19th and early 20th centuries international trade statistics?
Paul Girard
Blog
GRAND Stack: One schema to rule them all
In this article I will show you the power of the GRAND stack, for creating a web application on top of Neo4j where everything is typed, just by using your data schema.
Benoît Simard
Conference
L’exploration visuelle comme instrument de recherche en histoire économique et sociale
Paul Girard, Guillaume Daudin, Loïc Charles, and Guillaume Plique
Humanistica 2020, Bordeaux, France
Conference
Pourquoi et comment géolocaliser le commerce mondial des XIXe-miXXe siècles ?
Paul Girard and Béatrice Dedinger
Humanistica 2020, Bordeaux, France
Event
FOSDEM 2020
Our yearly belgian tour, and a new occasion to meet people from Sciences-Po médialab. Paul co-organizes the Open Research Tools and Technologies room.
Brussels, Belgium
2019
Blog
OuestWare open-source tooling
Open source is one of OuestWare fundamental values. Our technical ecosystem had to be based on libre and open source tools. In this post, I present our choices regarding the daily tools our team needs.
Benoît Simard
Conference
Svelte, la nouvelle révolution des applications web
Alexis Jacomy
DevFest Nantes 2019, Nantes, France