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Re: Visualizing Reddit with my graph drawing library

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Post by bawatski » Tue, Feb 28, 2012, 4:41 PM UTC

mandeepj wrote: post #7

Great work. Later you can also add more sources like twitter, facebook

What "things" would you link together in twitter and facebook?

Re: Visualizing Reddit with my graph drawing library

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Post by tomjen3 » Tue, Feb 28, 2012, 4:53 PM UTC

I learned three things:

1) There are many, many more reddits than I knew about but I can't read that many.

2) That is a very nice library. I guess you have a simple spring system which compute the relative placements of the different things?

3) It is really fun to play with the springs. In fact, I will do that now.

Re: Visualizing Reddit with my graph drawing library

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Post by m_ke » Tue, Feb 28, 2012, 4:57 PM UTC

bawatski wrote: post #11

mandeepj wrote: post #7

Great work. Later you can also add more sources like twitter, facebook

What "things" would you link together in twitter and facebook?

I'm guessing how friends/followers are connected. Whole 6 degrees of separation idea

Re: Visualizing Reddit with my graph drawing library

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Post by orofino » Tue, Feb 28, 2012, 5:09 PM UTC

One thing that I noticed and hasn't been mentioned here (and everyone should try), the scrolling/zooming is fantastic. It remains smooth even with many many items displayed.

Well done.

It is all too common that a visualization like this will cripple performance, the reddit and book visualization are still very smooth for panning/zooming.

Re: Visualizing Reddit with my graph drawing library

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Post by gtani » Tue, Feb 28, 2012, 5:13 PM UTC

ChrisAnn wrote: post #9

Nice - I found a few new subreddits to subscribe to, so a very good job!

their search works pretty well

http://metareddit.com/

Re: Visualizing Reddit with my graph drawing library

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Post by nik_0_0 » Tue, Feb 28, 2012, 5:24 PM UTC

Hopefully this isn't on my side, but clicking on "The dark side of RATP (Paris metro) tickets" from /r/ReverseEngineering gives link address http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&#3... which resolves to a blank translate page.

The url from Reddit direct is: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js...

Looks like the handling of & on your side? Looks very cool though :)

Re: Visualizing Reddit with my graph drawing library

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Post by tsunamifury » Tue, Feb 28, 2012, 5:43 PM UTC

If you click into this using IE, you are trapped by your detection page and it breaks the back function.

Please consider fixing this. I know we dont like IE users, but please dont punish them!

Re: Visualizing Reddit with my graph drawing library

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Post by dhammack » Tue, Feb 28, 2012, 5:48 PM UTC

A comparison of "conservative" versus "progressive" reveals some interesting things. Progressive leads to the Obama subreddit, where conservative leads to the Ron Paul and Rand Paul subreddits. The connections in each are ingriguing, for instance, the progressive has connections to environmental sub reddits, while the conservative has links to financial sub reddits. Interesting.

Re: Visualizing Reddit with my graph drawing library

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Post by ptbrowne » Tue, Feb 28, 2012, 5:51 PM UTC

useful software if you happen to often work with graphs : http://gephi.org. The ForceAtlas V2 algorithm which is an optimization of Barnes-Hut one is pretty fast !

Re: Visualizing Reddit with my graph drawing library

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Post by ajarmoniuk » Tue, Feb 28, 2012, 6:05 PM UTC

Do something similar for Wikipedia categories, please :)