Search on brege.org https://brege.org/tags/search/ Recent content in Search on brege.org Hugo en Copyright (c) 2016-2026 Wyatt Brege Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:45:09 -0400 Les Miserables https://brege.org/post/les-miserables-graph-search/ Sat, 24 Dec 2022 05:30:47 -0500 https://brege.org/post/les-miserables-graph-search/ A network graph of character connections from one of my favorite books and authors of all time, Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables. Les Miserables is one of my favorite books. I read most of the original translation on a train ride to Portland, OR from Chicago, IL back in 2008 and enjoyed the remainder on the return trip back East. It taught me compassion: when Valjean places the coin in Cosette’s shoe. Father Christmas always misses her. There was an earlier passage of a man stepping on a coin in front of her, while she swept dressed in rags.

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The search bar is the major addition to the graphing methods. Nodes can be clicked and added to a subgraph builder. You can continue to search for new node members in the search bar (which has a rudimentary autofill that’s a straight json query) and clicking on them will add them to the builder. Simultaneously, the graph will reduce to a graph containing only all nodes with edges linked to nodes in the builder.

Items can be removed from the builder either by clicking the little builder tabs or re-clicking the node. Clearing the builder bar completely will redraw the whole graph.

Testing and development was done on the mini pesto data set I made for What is Pesto?. Recipe builder coming soon(!)

Please email me at wyatt@brege.org with any questions.

Dataset can be found here:

Lingering annoyances:

  • Slow
  • Javascript needs clean up
  • I have great fear running this on my 700x3000 dataset..
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