Quick ‘n dirty visualization of the clusters of relationships among my facebook friends:
Data generated with Bernie Hogan’s My Online Social Network app on facebook, and visualized with GUESS. Good stuff, Bernie!
Thanks to Marc Smith — he’s one of the nodes up there — for the link to the flickr version of this image over at Connected Action.
Brayden King and Kieran Healy (they’re up there in my visualization, too) have posted their own plots over at orgtheory: one, two.
The GUESS visualization looks so much cooler than what I got from UCINET.
I can’t believe your nerds and grad school clusters don’t connect.
— brayden Mar 2, 10:21 PM #
Well, “nerds” is an implicit sub (or master) category for grad school, if not a constant for all my clusters. That’s just a particular set of nerds.
I hadn’t used GUESS before, but it’s a snap.
— alan Mar 3, 07:20 AM #
You appear to really be interested in information design. You familiar with Edward Tufte?
— Kyle Mar 3, 02:53 PM #
Is “nerds” your DHS set?
— BriAnna Mar 3, 03:28 PM #
Brianna — Yep, that’s the DHS set.
Kyle — I’ve read some Tufte, but I’m not an acolyte. Though I do dig good visualizations of all sorts.
— alan Mar 3, 09:00 PM #
Hi,
There’s also Netvizz which generates GDF files for GUESS and Gephi: http://apps.facebook.com/netvizz/
(http://thepoliticsofsystems.net/2010/03/22/netvizz-facebook-to-gephi/)
See a tutorial here: http://blog.sociomantic.com/2010/05/using-netvizz-gephi-to-analyze-a-facebook-network/
cheers
— Sébastien Heymann May 27, 01:27 AM #