I have a list of applications and the servers that are providing access to these applications, there are a large number of crossovers, For Example:
Servers 01-09 provide App A, App, B
Servers 05-09 provide App C
Servers 10-14 also provide App A
Currently I have drawn on a sheet of paper a lot of boxes with the list of servers and their apps, grouped into servers running the same app. using the example above: A box labelled 01-09 with App A and App B written inside and overlapping another box labelled 05-09 with App C written in it.
I wanted to transfer this into a visualization provided by d3 (I am also learning d3) that I can show on a website. I had in mind a kind of super venn diagram or something? The goal is to easily see the groups of servers running the same applications.
Has anyone else had this kind of visualization problem - what techniques did you use? what does d3 have built in that could be used in this instance?
For me, the easiest way to do this is in a table because you have only two dimensions:
| Server | App A | App B | App C |
|--------------------------------|
| 01 | X | | |
| 02 | | | |
etc
If you're set on d3.js (quite reasonable), I would use a Co-occurrence graph with servers vertically and apps horizontally.
Alternatively, you could try labelled force with apps having one shape and servers having another. I don't think that's as readable as a table!