# Do I need to stardog in order to run Stardog Studio?

**URL:** <https://community.stardog.com/t/do-i-need-to-stardog-in-order-to-run-stardog-studio/1415>\
**Category:** Stardog Studio\
**Created:** [December 6, 2018, 12:59am UTC](https://community.stardog.com/t/do-i-need-to-stardog-in-order-to-run-stardog-studio/1415 "2018-12-06T00:59:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![martin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.stardog.com/martin/32/336_2.png) [@martin](https://community.stardog.com/u/martin)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 12:59am UTC](https://community.stardog.com/t/do-i-need-to-stardog-in-order-to-run-stardog-studio/1415/1 "2018-12-06T00:59:36Z")

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Hello, I just installed the try-out version of Stardog Studio, and I want to execute one of the tutorials in the studio. Do I still need to install Stardog in order for running the studio?

Specifically, I want to run this example: [stardog-examples/examples/aml at develop · stardog-union/stardog-examples · GitHub](https://github.com/stardog-union/stardog-examples/tree/develop/examples/aml)

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![stephen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.stardog.com/stephen/32/27_2.png) [@stephen](https://community.stardog.com/u/stephen)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 1:31pm UTC](https://community.stardog.com/t/do-i-need-to-stardog-in-order-to-run-stardog-studio/1415/2 "2018-12-06T13:31:36Z")

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Hi,

Yes you will need a running Stardog instance to point your Studio download to. For that AML example especially you will need to execute commands using the Stardog CLI.

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**Author:** ![martin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.stardog.com/martin/32/336_2.png) [@martin](https://community.stardog.com/u/martin)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 7:18pm UTC](https://community.stardog.com/t/do-i-need-to-stardog-in-order-to-run-stardog-studio/1415/3 "2018-12-06T19:18:28Z")

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Thanks Stephen. For that example, if I want to visualize the graph through linkurio, is there a way to configure the visualization in the Studio? I tried the free version of linkurio, but it gives a web demo:

> **[Linkurious Enterprise On-demand Demo](https://resources.linkurious.com/demo)**
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> Linkurious Enterprise is an off-the-shelf solution that takes your connected data and translates it into interactive visualizations that can be easily explored and analyzed. Watch a demo today!

How to visualize the example in the Stardog Studio?

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**Author:** ![zachary.whitley](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.stardog.com/zachary.whitley/32/94_2.png) [@zachary.whitley](https://community.stardog.com/u/zachary.whitley)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2018, 3:26pm UTC](https://community.stardog.com/t/do-i-need-to-stardog-in-order-to-run-stardog-studio/1415/4 "2018-12-07T15:26:49Z")

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Linkurious is a paid product and StardogStudio doesn't currently do visualization, although I'm sure that's on the roadmap. I think the easiest alternative would be to use [Gephi](https://gephi.org/) and the [SemanticWebImporter](https://github.com/gephi/gephi/wiki/SemanticWebImport) plugin if you're looking for something like graphs and charts I would suggest [RAWGraphs](https://rawgraphs.io/) You should be able to get data into it fairly easily using the import from url and pointing to a sparql query url and requesting the result in CSV.

Hopefully that gets you going.