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Show HN: Network of celebrity ice bucket challenges, visualized

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Re: Show HN: Network of celebrity ice bucket challenges, visualized

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Post by jeffcmohr »

nthitz wrote: post #12

Fastco has a much more comprehensive (though not interactive) graphic http://www.fastcodesign.com/3034799/infographic-of-the-day/h...

Thanks for the link nthitz. In the end we ended up making an arbitrary choice of where to cut off the map. I was blown away by how many celebrities actually participated (I'd guess the actual map would be 10-20x even the Fastco one). If someone ever pulls the data together for all of it we'd love to power the larger visualization.

Re: Show HN: Network of celebrity ice bucket challenges, visualized

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Post by loganu »

For those that have stated their donation amounts, it would be interesting to see what they're all pitching in. For example, that Old Spice dude said he was kicking in $1000... which seems pretty bogus when it's coming out of Old Spice's marketing budget. And last I saw, the biggest amount received was 100,000 which is crazy, but then you realise that Martha Stewart has a net worth upwards of $650 million, and (if that's her chipping the most money in) that's the equivalent to me throwing like eleven dollars in. Good chance she gave less and called it a charitable write-off.

Re: Show HN: Network of celebrity ice bucket challenges, visualized

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Post by jeffcmohr »

loganu wrote: post #14

For those that have stated their donation amounts, it would be interesting to see what they're all pitching in. For example, that Old Spice dude said he was kicking in $1000... which seems pretty bogus when it's coming out of Old Spice's marketing budget. And last I saw, the biggest amount received was 100,000 which is crazy, but then you realise that Martha Stewart has a net worth upwards of $650 million, and (if th…

Great idea loganu. Have you seen stated amounts for many of the people on this map? It's easy for us to add and scale by that as another option if we have the data.

Re: Show HN: Network of celebrity ice bucket challenges, visualized

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Post by justboxing »

This is beautiful! I was always wondering how the chain tagging effect played out in this Fundraiser.

I would love to see some or all of the following in your site.

1) Influencer Count: How many people (rolled up to the individual page we are viewing) did a particular individual influence?. Example: When I click Bill Gates' face, I would like to see a count of how many people he influenced, which would be 3 he tagged + 3 * 3 that the 3 people he tagged, tagged and so on till you reach the ending roots of the terenary tree chains.

2) Top Influencers: If you implement #1, then a page showing the top influencers, by the count of how many people they influenced into taking the challenge and donating.

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