is there a dedicated channel here for questions regarding data2viz ?

There’s not that I know of but @gaetan is usually quick to respond.

@gaetan i want to visualize dependencies between different "modules" in a nicer way than the usuall graphviz rendering i want to have some sort of force directed graph that is selforganizing and text labels, version numbers and images for modules is data2viz able to do that (or which parts are not yet possible ?)

Ok, it’s maybe the time to start a #data2viz channel. I’ll do it just after posting this message. I think we can do what you want quite easily. The only point using forces is that they apply for animations, calculating the position of nodes for the next frame. We could trick the mechanism by choosing the right configuration parameters for quick convergence and run enough loops to have the expected result. We also have to render the result as a static image. This can be done using javaFx. I will start a small prototype to show how it can be done.