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Network visualization of 50k blogs and links

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Re: Network visualization of 50k blogs and links

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I scraped my favorite blogs and made a graph from the domains that each blog links to.

You can see clusters forming of websites that talk about similar topics, like crypto, rationality, Canada, India, and even postgres!

The visualization was made entirely in webgl with some neat optimizations to render that many lines and circles.

Re: Network visualization of 50k blogs and links

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post #2

I scraped my favorite blogs and made a graph from the domains that each blog links to. You can see clusters forming of websites that talk about similar topics, like crypto, rationality, Canada, India, and even postgres! The visualization was made entirely in webgl with some neat optimizations to render that many lines and circles.

Very neat! So you wrote the graph visualization UI? I see in prior project you used cytoscape - any motivation for doing it yourself this time (vs one of the available libraries)?

Re: Network visualization of 50k blogs and links

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post #2

I scraped my favorite blogs and made a graph from the domains that each blog links to. You can see clusters forming of websites that talk about similar topics, like crypto, rationality, Canada, India, and even postgres! The visualization was made entirely in webgl with some neat optimizations to render that many lines and circles.

This is a really cool project! I'd love to hear more about how your built the front end.

Re: Network visualization of 50k blogs and links

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post #2

I scraped my favorite blogs and made a graph from the domains that each blog links to. You can see clusters forming of websites that talk about similar topics, like crypto, rationality, Canada, India, and even postgres! The visualization was made entirely in webgl with some neat optimizations to render that many lines and circles.

serendipity heaven, but... how is this map of _your favorite_ blogs?
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