25:["$","title",null,{"children":"The Arxiv in WebGL. | Anthony Moser | Observable"}] 49:T786,# The Arxiv in WebGL. I've been periodically working on [Deepscatter, a JS library for visualizing millions to billions of points using WebGL](https://github.com/CreatingData/deepscatter). It seems to be basically working, even inside Observable! As a trouble-shooter demonstration of some of its capabilities, here's a visualization of a million-some scientific articles from the ArXiv. The embedding here is from the [cartolabe](https://cartolabe.fr/about) project, which has made a similar browser but using map tiles rather than real-time rendered points. They tokenize articles, vectorize them using [Latent Semantic Analysis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_semantic_analysis), and projected into two dimensions using [UMAP](https://umap-learn.readthedocs.io/en/latest/). You can **zoom** into regions to load more articles, **and click on any article for the full abstract and links**, thanks to arXiv's own open access interoperability standards. (The click handlers in deepscatter can be dynamically changed, and I use that here to load abstracts over the web.) By tiling data into quadtrees and shipping it over the web using Apache Arrow, it's possible to send a great deal more information about each book than in a flat map visualization--enough to show allow fairly rich abstraction over points, and engage in various types of filters. Full text search over metadata isn't currently supported, because Arrow is slow on strings--that will have to wait for someone to build a working DuckDB implementation that can run on a webworker. (A previous, non-webgl version library is described in more detail [here](https://creatingdata.us/techne/deep_scatterplots/); some other observable notebooks are [here](https://observablehq.com/collection/@bmschmidt/deep-scatterplots)). For a gentler introduction, check out David Mora's [Intro to deepscatter](https://observablehq.com/@davidnmora/intro-to-deepscatter) 4a:T67f,viewof selected = { plot_updater const labels = plot._renderer.aes.dim("color").current.scale.domain() const el = DOM.element("div") const holder = d3.select(el) const checked = new Set() const moused = {current : undefined} let regex = new RegExp(regex_filter, "i") const filtered = labels.filter(d => d.match(regex)) holder.style("display", "flex").style("width", width * .66).style("font-style", "10px sans-serif").style("flex-wrap", "wrap") const slugs = holder.selectAll("div").data(filtered).join("div") .style("margin", "1px") .style("background-color", d => plot._renderer.aes.dim("color").current.scale(d)).text(d => d) .on("mouseover", (event, d) => { moused.current = d el.value = [moused.current, ...checked] el.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent("input")); update_style() }) .on("mouseout", (event, d) => { moused.current = undefined el.value = checked.length ? [...checked] : labels el.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent("input")); update_style() }) .on("click", (event, d) => { if (!checked.has(d)) {checked.add(d)} else {checked.delete(d)} el.value = checked.length ? [...checked] : labels el.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent("input")); update_style() }) function update_style() { slugs.style("opacity", d => { if (checked.has(d)) {return 1} if (el.value[0] == d) {return 1} if (el.value.length < 1) {return .9} return .4 }) } if (checked.length) { el.value = [...checked] return el } el.value = filtered return el }4b:T77a,/** * Changes XML to JSON * Modified version from here: http://davidwalsh.name/convert-xml-json * @param {string} xml XML DOM tree */ function xmlToJson(xml) { // Create the return object var obj = {}; if (xml.nodeType == 1) { // element // do attributes if (xml.attributes.length > 0) { obj["@attributes"] = {}; for (var j = 0; j < xml.attributes.length; j++) { var attribute = xml.attributes.item(j); obj["@attributes"][attribute.nodeName] = attribute.nodeValue; } } } else if (xml.nodeType == 3) { // text obj = xml.nodeValue; } // do children // If all text nodes inside, get concatenated text from them. var textNodes = [].slice.call(xml.childNodes).filter(function(node) { return node.nodeType === 3; }); if (xml.hasChildNodes() && xml.childNodes.length === textNodes.length) { obj = [].slice.call(xml.childNodes).reduce(function(text, node) { return text + node.nodeValue; }, ""); } else if (xml.hasChildNodes()) { for (var i = 0; i < xml.childNodes.length; i++) { var item = xml.childNodes.item(i); var nodeName = item.nodeName; if (typeof obj[nodeName] == "undefined") { obj[nodeName] = xmlToJson(item); } else { if (typeof obj[nodeName].push == "undefined") { var old = obj[nodeName]; obj[nodeName] = []; obj[nodeName].push(old); } obj[nodeName].push(xmlToJson(item)); } } } return obj; } /* Usage: 1. If you have an XML file URL: const response = await fetch('file_url'); const xmlString = await response.text(); var XmlNode = new DOMParser().parseFromString(xmlString, 'text/xml'); xmlToJson(XmlNode); 2. If you have an XML as string: var XmlNode = new DOMParser().parseFromString(yourXmlString, 'text/xml'); xmlToJson(XmlNode); 3. 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