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Discover yFiles for Avalonia and cross-platform .NET graph visualization!

In this webinar, Henry introduces yFiles for Avalonia, bringing the complete yFiles SDK to Avalonia UI for cross-platform .NET development. You will see how yFiles enables sophisticated graph visualization across Windows, Linux, and macOS with native performance and a streamlined API.

This session covers the Early Access Program, key features, live demos, and practical guidance on getting started with yFiles for Avalonia in your cross-platform applications.

Coach: Henry Ehlers, Software Engineer at yWorks

Additional resources

• yFiles for Avalonia
• Join the Early Access Program
• Avalonia Preview Demos
• Avalonia UI
• Learn more about yFiles

Discover the exciting updates in yFiles for HTML 2026. In this session, CTO Sebastian presents the major features and enhancements of version 3.1, including heatmap support, improved hierarchical layouts, faster edge bundling, and WebGL rendering enhancements.

You’ll see live demos and get a comprehensive overview of how these new capabilities can enhance your graph visualizations.

Coach: Sebastian Mueller, CTO at yWorks

Additional resources

• About version 3.1
• Version 3.1 Demos
• yFiles for HTML
• Learn more about yFiles

Ever struggled with unreadable node-link diagrams?

If so, a BioFabric may be just what you need. In this interactive webinar, Henry walks you through what exactly a BioFabric is, its advantages over conventional node-link diagrams, how its layout algorithm works, and how to start implementing your own. This session provides an overview of BioFabric visualization and gives you the opportunity to ask questions about this relatively novel yet powerful approach.

Coach: Henry Ehlers, Software Engineer at yWorks

Additional resources

• BioFabric Overview
• BioFabric Demo
• Learn more about yFiles
• yFiles Demos

Learn how to effectively export your visualizations to the Visio (.vsdx) format while exploring key features and best practices to ensure smooth integration of Visio support. Whether you’re a developer looking to enhance your web apps or someone interested in advanced visualization techniques, this session provides invaluable knowledge and hands-on tips.

Coach: Lukas Holländer, Teamlead VSDX Add-On for yFiles for HTML

Additional resources

• VSDX Export for yFiles for HTML
• yFiles for HTML
• yFiles Demos

In this session, CTO Sebastian guides you through the brand-new version 3 of yFiles for HTML.

You’ll get a comprehensive overview of what’s changed with this major milestone and explore the exciting new features that have been added. Sebastian will walk you through the updates our team has implemented over the past 15 months and explain why and where the API has evolved.

Coach: Sebastian Mueller, CTO at yWorks

• Learn more about yFiles
• yFiles Demos
• Webinar Links Overview

In this webinar, you will learn how to create advanced graph visualizations in Jupyter Notebooks using Neo4j and Graph Data Science. We explore techniques for analyzing and visualizing complex temporal and spatial data through real-world examples. You will discover how to transform raw data into meaningful insights, effectively visualize connected data, and address common challenges in graph analysis with Python.

• yFiles Demos
• yFiles Jupyter Graphs for Neo4j
• yFiles Graphs for Jupyter
• Presented Notebook on Google Colab

Additional links

• More About yFiles
• Interactive Demos
• yFiles Playground
• Try yFiles for free
• Playlist: The Art of Graph Visualization

Discover the fascinating world of graph visualization in our webinar series, “The Art of Graph Visualization”. In this series, you will learn techniques for creating compelling graph visualizations.

In the ninth webinar, Interactive Graph Editing for Developers, you explore advanced programming examples and hands-on insights for creating and modifying graphs interactively. This session is designed for both seasoned developers and beginners and deepens your understanding of integrating graph visualization effectively into applications.

Playground examples

• Interactive editing example
• Interactive editing part 1
• Interactive editing part 2
• Interactive editing part 3
• Interactive editing part 4
• Interaction Techniques
• yFiles tutorials

Demos

• Wonderlens
• yEd Live
• Events Viewer
• Interactive Hierarchic Layout
• BPMN Editor
• Snapping
• Grid Snapping
• Custom Snapping
• Clipboard
• Deferred Cut Clipboard
• Graph Copy
• Simple Drag and Drop
• Folding With Layout
• Context Menu
• Valid Begin Cursor
• Lasso Selection

Additional resources

• More About yFiles
• Interactive Demos
• yFiles Playground
• Try yFiles for free
• Playlist: The Art of Graph Visualization

Discover the fascinating world of graph visualization in our webinar series, “The Art of Graph Visualization”. In this series, you will learn techniques for creating compelling graph visualizations.

In the eighth webinar, Interaction and Animation Techniques for Developers, you explore advanced programming examples and hands-on insights. This session is designed for both seasoned developers and beginners and deepens your understanding of integrating graph visualization effectively into applications.

Playground examples

• Webinar animation example
• Interaction Techniques
• yFiles tutorials

Additional resources

• More About yFiles
• Interactive Demos
• yFiles Playground
• Try yFiles for free
• Playlist: The Art of Graph Visualization

Discover the fascinating world of graph visualization in our webinar series, “The Art of Graph Visualization”. In this series, you will learn techniques for creating compelling graph visualizations.

In the seventh webinar, The ABCs of Graph Styling for Developers, you explore advanced programming examples and hands-on insights. This session is designed for both seasoned developers and beginners and deepens your understanding of integrating graph visualization effectively into applications.

Playground examples

• Webinar styling example
• yFiles tutorials

Additional resources

• More About yFiles
• Interactive Demos
• yFiles Playground
• Try yFiles for free
• Playlist: The Art of Graph Visualization

Discover the fascinating world of graph visualization in our webinar series, “The Art of Graph Visualization”. In this series, you will learn techniques for creating compelling graph visualizations.

In the sixth webinar, Graph Analysis and Layout for Developers, you learn advanced techniques for visualizing complex graph data through practical examples and hands-on exercises.

Playground examples

• Discogs.com data analysis
• Histories of artists
• Interaction Techniques

Additional resources

• More About yFiles
• Interactive Demos
• yFiles Playground
• Try yFiles for free
• Playlist: The Art of Graph Visualization

Discover the fascinating world of graph visualization in our webinar series, “The Art of Graph Visualization”. In this series, you will learn techniques for creating compelling graph visualizations.

In the fifth webinar, Interaction Techniques, you discover how to embed meaningful interactions into your graphs. From hover effects to clickable nodes, you unlock the power of interactive elements to enhance user engagement and provide a deeper understanding of your data.

Playground examples

• Discogs.com data analysis
• Histories of artists
• Interaction Techniques

Additional resources

• More About yFiles
• Interactive Demos
• yFiles Playground
• Try yFiles for free
• Playlist: The Art of Graph Visualization

Discover the fascinating world of graph visualization in our webinar series, “The Art of Graph Visualization”. In this series, you will learn techniques for creating compelling graph visualizations.

In the fourth webinar, The ABCs of Graph Styling, you explore the world of styling graph visualizations to integrate information seamlessly into your graphs. You uncover the use of color, shapes, and animations as powerful annotations, transforming raw data into a rich narrative.

Key topics covered

• Visualization Learn about the structure of graph visualizations and their elements.

• Visual Encoding Master the use of color, shape, size, and animation to bring your data to life.

• Principles Discover the importance of consistency, simplicity, hierarchy, and Gestalt principles in creating effective visualizations.

• Technologies Explore the use of HTML, CSS, SVG, and WebGL to enhance graph styling techniques.

Playground examples

• Discogs.com data analysis
• Histories of artists
• Weighted relations
• Animated styling

Additional resources

• More About yFiles
• Interactive Demos
• yFiles Playground
• Try yFiles for free
• Playlist: The Art of Graph Visualization

Discover the fascinating world of graph visualization in our webinar series, “The Art of Graph Visualization”. In this series, you will learn techniques for creating compelling graph visualizations.

In the third webinar, Graph Analysis and Layout, you will learn how to effectively analyze your graph, unveiling hidden patterns and relationships. From hierarchical to force-directed layouts, you will gain expertise in choosing the most suitable arrangement to amplify the visual impact of your data.

Playground examples

• Discogs.com data analysis
• Histories of artists
• Weighted relations

Additional resources

• More About yFiles
• Interactive Demos
• yFiles Playground
• Try yFiles for free
• Playlist: The Art of Graph Visualization

Discover the fascinating world of graph visualization in our webinar series, “The Art of Graph Visualization”. In this series, you will learn techniques for creating compelling graph visualizations.

In this second webinar, Getting Started: From Data to Graph Visualization, you will learn how to work with your data and create compelling diagrams.

In this webinar, the following free diagramming apps are showcased: yEd Live, Data Explorer for Neo4j, App Generator, and diagram creation with python

Programming examples

• Weighted Relations

Additional links

• More About yFiles
• Interactive Demos
• yFiles Playground
• Try yFiles for free
• Playlist: The Art of Graph Visualization

Discover the fascinating world of graph visualization in our webinar series “The Art of Graph Visualization”. In this series, you will learn techniques for creating compelling graph visualizations.

In the first webinar, we explore how graphs are omnipresent in our daily lives. Whether they appear as metro maps, mind maps, supply chains, workflows, or social networks, they play a crucial role across every industry, from automotive, life sciences, and finance to technological systems in general. Learn how graph visualization empowers you to understand complex data and create intuitive visual representations.

The webinar concludes with a Q&A session.

Additional links

• More About yFiles
• Interactive Demos
• Try yFiles for free
• Playlist: The Art of Graph Visualization

In this webinar series, we present a selection of the most popular graph layouts and provide tips and tricks on how to use them effectively.

During this webinar, we give a broad overview of the Radial Layout in yFiles. We introduce its applications and characteristics through various examples. You will learn how to assess whether the Radial Layout is suitable for your data, as well as the fundamentals of using and configuring this layout in yFiles for HTML to meet your requirements.

Additional resources

• More About yFiles
• Interactive Demos
• Try yFiles for free

Discover exciting updates in yFiles for HTML 2023.

Our Chief Technology Officer, Sebastian, unveils the latest features and enhancements coming to yFiles in 2023. In this session, you get an exclusive preview of the upcoming major release of yFiles for HTML, including demos, source code snippets, and a high-level overview of new capabilities.

The webinar concludes with a Q&A session.

Additional resources

• New demos in the yFiles 2023 major release
• All Interactive yFiles Demos
• More About yFiles
• Interactive Demos
• Try yFiles for free

In this webinar series, we present a selection of the most popular graph layouts and provide tips and tricks on how to use them effectively.

During this webinar, we give a broad overview of annotating nodes and edges with labels in yFiles. We introduce different label placement techniques and styles, presenting their applications and characteristics. You will learn the fundamentals of using and configuring these annotations in yFiles for HTML to meet your needs.

Additional links

• More About yFiles
• Interactive Demos
• Try yFiles for free

This webinar gives you an overview of edge routing in yFiles. We introduce different edge routing styles, presenting their applications and characteristics. You will learn how to assess which style is suitable for your data, as well as the fundamentals of using and configuring edge routing in yFiles for HTML to meet your requirements.

The webinar concludes with a Q&A session.

Additional resources

• Edge Routing Demos
• All Interactive yFiles Demos
• More About yFiles
• Interactive Demos
• Try yFiles for free

In this webinar, we give you an overview of the yFiles Circular Layout.

Today’s session introduces the Circular Layout, its applications, and its characteristics through various examples. You will learn how to assess whether this layout is suitable for your data, as well as the fundamentals of using and configuring it in yFiles for HTML to meet your needs. In this context, we also present the Balloon Layout, which uses the circular layout to create tree-like visualizations of general graphs.

Additional resources

• Layout Styles Demo (Circular Layout)
• All Interactive yFiles Demos
• More About yFiles
• Interactive Demos
• Try yFiles for free

In this webinar, we give you an overview of the yFiles Orthogonal Layout.

During this webinar, we provide a broad overview of the Orthogonal Layout. We introduce its applications and characteristics through various examples. You will learn how to assess whether the Orthogonal Layout is suitable for your data, as well as the fundamentals of using and configuring this layout in yFiles for HTML to meet your requirements.

Additional resources

• Layout Styles Demo
• All Interactive yFiles Demos
• More About yFiles
• Interactive Demos
• Try yFiles for free

In this series of webinars, we present a selection of the yFiles layouts.

This webinar gives you an overview of the yFiles tree layout. We introduce you to its applications and characteristics, giving various examples. You will learn how to assess whether the tree layout is suitable for your data, as well as the basics of using and configuring this layout (in HTML) to suit your needs.

Related resources

• Decision Tree demo
• Dungeons & Dragons Decision Tree demo
• All interactive yFiles demos

Learn more about yFiles Evaluate yFiles for free

In this series of webinars, we present a selection of yFiles layouts.

This webinar gives you an overview of the yFiles Cactus Group Layout.

We introduce its applications and characteristics through various examples. You will learn how to assess whether the Cactus Group Layout is suitable for your data, as well as the fundamentals of using and configuring this layout in yFiles for HTML to meet your specific requirements.

Additional resources

• Large Graph Aggregation Demo
• All Interactive yFiles Demos
• yFiles
• Evaluate yFiles for free

In this webinar, we give you an overview of the yFiles Hierarchic Layout.

We introduce its applications and characteristics through various examples. You will learn how to assess whether the Hierarchic Layout is suitable for your data, as well as the fundamentals of using and configuring this layout in yFiles for HTML to meet your specific requirements.

Additional resources

• Hierarchic Layout Demos
• All Interactive yFiles Demos
• More About yFiles
• Interactive Demos
• Try yFiles for free

In this webinar, you will get an introduction to the free yFiles graph visualization plugin for Jupyter Notebooks.

We’ll show you how to install and use the plugin to render, layout, and analyze graphs from various data sources within Jupyter Notebooks and JupyterLab.

At the end of the webinar, there will be a Q&A session where we answer your questions.

Additional resources

• yFiles Graphs for Jupyter
• GitHub Repository
• yFiles Overview

In this series of webinars we present a selection of yFiles layouts.

In the first webinar, we give a broad overview of the most important layouts in yFiles. We introduce their main applications and characteristics, provide various examples, and show how to easily apply them using the yFiles diagramming library.

In the subsequent webinars, we take a closer look at these layouts. Each webinar focuses on one particular layout and presents concrete coding examples using yFiles for HTML.

Throughout this webinar series, you will learn:

• How to assess whether a layout is suitable for your data
• The fundamentals of using yFiles layouts
• How to configure layouts to meet your specific requirements

At the end of the webinar, there will be a Q&A session where we answer your questions.

Additional resources

• Layout Demos
• More About yFiles Graph Layouts
• yFiles Overview
• Try yFiles for free

This webinar shows you the recent features coming to yFiles in 2022. We introduce you to the new automatic layouts, new interactivity, and styling options. Additionally, we explore a few source code snippets as well as discuss the latest features of yFiles.

The focus of this webinar is on yFiles for HTML’s view features, but layout and interaction apply to other platforms as well.

Coach: Sebastian Mueller, CTO at yWorks

Learn more about yFiles: yFiles Products Overview

In this webinar, we give you an overview of the yFiles Organic Layout.

We introduce its applications and characteristics through various examples. After discussing the layout’s main features and capabilities, we take a closer look at integrating sublayouts such as:

• Parallel structures
• Star structures
• Tree structures

You will learn how to assess whether the Organic Layout is suitable for your data, as well as the fundamentals of using and configuring the layout in yFiles to meet your specific requirements.

Additional resources

• Organic Layout Demos
• All Interactive yFiles Demos
• More About yFiles
• Interactive Demos
• Try yFiles for free

Visualizing business processes improves the understanding of a process and how the process flow works. To give organizations the ability to communicate these procedures with multiple stakeholders, a standardized model and visual notation is essential.

In this webinar, you will learn how the BPMN standard works and how to visualize business processes with yFiles using your BPMN data.

Additional resources

The following links provide more information about BPMN and how it is supported by yFiles:

• A Live BPMN Editor based on yFiles for HTML
• Business Process Diagrams with yFiles
• Business Process Diagrams with Graphity for Confluence

Learn more about the yFiles family of diagramming libraries:

• The yFiles SDK

In this free webinar, we present techniques and tips for manipulating and editing large graphs.

Transforming large raw business datasets into a meaningful visualization can be a challenge. Large graphs often suffer from higher complexity, which generally makes them hard to grasp. Most of the time, only a small part of the diagram is of interest, and a typical “hairball” graph might look impressive but does not provide much insight to the viewer.

Reducing the complexity is an excellent strategy for browsing large graphs.

However, even after complexity reduction, the graph instance can still be very large, and thus we need techniques to display the graph elements efficiently and interact with them smoothly.

In this webinar, we focus on two aspects to tackle these challenges:

Namely, reducing the data complexity to obtain a smaller graph structure, including e.g., aggregation, clustering, or filtering, and improving the rendering and interaction performance, using WebGL, customizing user interactions, and more.

Learn more about the yFiles family of diagramming libraries:

• https://www.yworks.com/products/yfiles

Take a look at the new 2021 yFiles major releases! Hear what we have to offer, see what’s new, and learn how your app or developer experience can benefit from the new features.

There will be a focus on yFiles for HTML in this webinar, but you will also learn about features that will be part of all platforms that yFiles is supported on:

• New layouts
• New developer tools
• New library features and integrations
• New demos

This webinar focuses on yFiles for HTML, but also covers features available across all platforms supported by yFiles.

Coach: Sebastian Mueller, CTO at yWorks

Learn more about the yFiles family of diagramming libraries: yFiles Products Overview

In this recorded webinar, we introduce the new features in the VSDX Export Add-on 2.0.0 for the yFiles for HTML diagramming SDK.

You will learn how to:

• Enhance existing Visio files with yFiles diagrams
• Add multiple yFiles diagrams to a single Visio file

Learn more about the VSDX Export for yFiles for HTML here: VSDX Export for yFiles for HTML

In this webinar, we introduce you to the different types of algorithms yFiles offers, for example, clustering algorithms, path-related algorithms, or graph structure analysis algorithms. We present use cases where the algorithms come in handy and you will learn how to run an analysis algorithm in your own application.

Additional resources

• Developer’s Guide – Clustering
• Developer’s Guide – Node Aggregation
• Developer’s Guide – Centrality Measures
• Developer’s Guide – Shortest Path and Reachability
• All Interactive yFiles Demos

In this webinar, yWorks CTO Sebastian demonstrates how CovidGraph can help researchers around the world intuitively and visually navigate through the publications, genes, patents, and more that make up the knowledge graph.

Sebastian goes into detail about the custom visualization application, specifically designed to meet the needs of end users and built by yWorks in just a few days. He also introduces the tools and frameworks used by the CovidGraph project and shows how this knowledge can be reused in your own projects. The session starts with a general introduction to the topic and the tools involved, followed by a brief look at some technical aspects of the solution.

More about information on CovidGraph: CovidGraph / HealthECCO

In this webinar, you learn about some of the tools yWorks uses and provides for creating bespoke graph visualization apps for complex data. We introduce you to the Data Explorer for Neo4j. You also get to see the rapid application development and scaffolding tool, the yFiles App Generator. You will learn how these tools can be used to create custom graph visualization applications to support domain-specific use cases.

Coach: Sebastian Mueller, CTO at yWorks

Learn more about the yFiles family of diagramming libraries: yFiles Overview

In this free webinar we will give you a sneak peek of the new features and functionality that will be available across all the upcoming 2020 yFiles releases, i.e. web platform, Java, and .NET:

• Isometric rendering
• Automatic layout support for clear area / fill area layouts
• Support for large graph analysis with community detection and aggregation
• Bézier curve routing style

And we will also show you what’s new specifically in yFiles for HTML, our HTML5/JavaScript solution for great browser applications:

• Improved Node.js support
• Additional framework and language support for TypeScript, Angular, React, and Vue developers
• New label style with rich formatting support

Coach: Sebastian Mueller, CTO at yWorks

Learn more about the yFiles family of diagramming libraries: yFiles Overview

Learn how to load and visualize data from your Neo4j database with yFiles, and explore the possibilities for gaining a better understanding of your data. We show you step by step how to connect to your Neo4j database and load your data in a small web application to create a clear visualization using the yFiles diagramming library.

Learn more about the yFiles family of diagramming libraries: yFiles Overview

In this webinar we give an overview of the yFiles automatic graph layout algorithms. We introduce you to what automatic layout means and explain the differences between algorithms that place all graph elements, edge routing and label placement algorithms. We present the different main layout styles included with yFiles (hierarchic, tree, organic, etc.) and show you their main characteristics. You will learn how they differ from each other and how they compare, and also about the different use cases they are suited for.

Learn more about the yFiles family of diagramming libraries: yFiles Overview

In this webinar, you will learn what tools you can use to get the most out of connected data visualizations:

• Why you should not always visualize connections in your data as connections in a diagram
• When simply getting the graph on the screen is not enough
• Why detailed custom item visualization makes a difference
• How customized interactivity can improve the user experience of your apps

In this webinar, we introduce the VSDX Export add-on for yFiles for HTML. This add-on lets you export yFiles diagrams to Microsoft Visio’s *.vsdx file format.

The webinar consists of two parts: The first part gives a general overview of the features and use cases of the VSDX export, including a minimal setup to get started.

In the second part, we explain Visio’s shape model and how the add-on converts yFiles graphs into Visio shapes, masters, and style sheets. Afterwards, there is a live coding session where we show how to import Visio stencils and use their masters and style sheets as templates for nodes. In the Q&A, we also demonstrate how a company logo can be added to the generated Visio file.

Learn more about the VSDX Export for yFiles for HTML here: VSDX Export for yFiles for HTML

The webinar consists of two parts: The first part covers features available across all platforms (Java, .NET, Web). It introduces new functionality for automatic graph layout and graph analysis algorithms, including new compactness options for hierarchic and tree layouts, as well as integrated labeling and bus layout features of the generic edge routing algorithm.

The second part focuses specifically on yFiles for HTML, the diagramming SDK for the web. It covers NPM module bundling, ECMAScript modules, and ES2015+ features, as well as improved code completion in Visual Studio Code and WebStorm. It also presents new CSS animation and styling features, along with improved WebGL and Canvas support.

Topics include:

• Brief introduction to yWorks
• Overview of the yFiles software programming library capabilities
• Walkthrough of online demos
• Code walkthrough of a simple web application showing how to connect yFiles for HTML visualizations with a Neo4j database
• Live coding demonstrating how Vue.js templating and custom layout configurations can be applied to diagrams created from graph database data, including adding a heatmap effect to the visualization

Topics:

• Introducing the yFiles product family
• Brief overview of yFiles functionality
• What’s new: news and updates about yFiles
• Getting started with yFiles: making the most of developer resources
• How to get support when developing with yFiles