It's like http://zeega.com but without the music.
The Difference Between Funny and LOL
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#22Le sigh. All of the comments are on the UX of the site, and not the content of the article. Come on guys. This article was really interesting to me (though obviously he doesn't get terribly into depth). I find data vis like this, whether it be super meaningful or not to be really cool. I'd like to see more analysis like this done with it.
That's because this is "linkbait". The poster is a founder of Tapestry, the site actually hosting this content.
To be honest, I'm fine with this kind of submission, I think it's a better way to see a product in context than a "Show HN", however, some people may see it as being underhanded as it defies the convention around here.
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#23I worked on a project with a guy who did network analysis like this. It was pretty cool... the first three times. After that it seemed like every problem had to involve a whizbang graphic - then I realized he didn't actually know how to program at all. His whole job was 'analysis', which was using Tableau and a graph partitioning program to produce visualizations (pretty much using the defaults), and then try to expl…
Yeah, I'm always skeptical about how much information those kinds of visualizations really reveal. How much of the pattern is truly present in the data vs. a result of making it pretty? Is it possible to gain insight that wouldn't already be just as easy to see by looking at the data in a simpler way?
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#24Talk about over analyzing something to death.
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#25What software was used to make those graphs? Or did I tap through it
I am also curious- the partitioning algorithms, the visualization. Does anyone know what tools he used are, or tools to achieve similar results?
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#26Le sigh. All of the comments are on the UX of the site, and not the content of the article. Come on guys. This article was really interesting to me (though obviously he doesn't get terribly into depth). I find data vis like this, whether it be super meaningful or not to be really cool. I'd like to see more analysis like this done with it.
That's because startups just need a fancy shmancy CRUD UI in order to raise millions of dollars and get acquired! Who cares what happens in the backend?! Le sigh.. I agree with you.
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#27From Wikipedia:
Modularity is one measure of the structure of networks or graphs. It was designed to measure the strength of division of a network into modules (also called groups, clusters or communities). Networks with high modularity have dense connections between the nodes within modules but sparse connections between nodes in different modules. Modularity is often used in optimization methods for detecting community structure in networks. However, it has been shown that modularity suffers a resolution limit and, therefore, it is unable to detect small communities. Biological networks, including animal brains, exhibit a high degree of modularity. A 2013 paper shows that modularity in biological networks may have evolved due to selection pressures to reduce connection costs.
Paper on Modularity Maximization algo to identify communities in graph is at http://www-scf.usc.edu/~gaurava/modularity.pdf
There are many other ways to cluster the graph.
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#28That was pretty cool. Also, Tapestry is insanely cool!
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#29Is the Japanese Python community really that big? What do they use it for?
The japanese Twitter community as a whole is actually really big. I believe Twitter has most of its users in Japan.
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#30An on-topic question: what software was used to create the network visualisations in this presentation?