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originally posted in:BungieNetPlatform
9/15/2014 12:00:16 PM
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HFCS As You've Never Seen It Before
Since this website is really just a big collection of social creatures with the ability to objectively designate who is part of our own network (by following people), I figured it would be a fun little experiment to model it... or at least part of it. What I did was examine each member of HFCS, download a list of each of the users who were following them, then arrange everyone in a [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_graph]directed graph[/url] where each edge between a node is directed from the source (the person following) to the target (the person being followed), in this case a member of HFCS. I then plugged all of it into some visualisation software and then exported it to different formats.
[url=https://googledrive.com/host/0BzCiGftwimcfM3g4ZWQyMnFvQ3c/]Here's the interactive version[/url].
[b]What do the colours mean?[/b] In short, they're the different communities the graph software was able to discover.
[b]Am I on there? Why aren't I on there?[/b] The data is a few hours old as of now, so if you've only just followed one of us, you won't find yourself on there. If you use the search bar to find yourself, you'll also need to use your unique name and not your display name as you had it a few hours ago.
[b]I see nodes/users with more than one edge/follow who aren't members of HFCS.[/b] They are following multiple members of HFCS. 1 edge = 1 follow.
[b]Note:[/b] there are 8,223 nodes and 14,210 edges (in other words, 8,223 users and 14,210 "follows" between everyone), so the web page may be a little bit slow. #blamedeej
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That's a pretty jellyfish. I can't view the interactive version on my phone, so I'll have to check it out later.
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100 bucks on you're totally bored ;)
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Lost on what the Modularity Classes mean, but either way that's a cool jellyfish.
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High five
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Modularity Class 5. I'll get getting this tattooed on my bicep, in Chinese characters of course.
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... Looks like a mutant jellyfish. Sounds like a pretty impressive feat though.
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1 ReplyI'm Modularity Class 3!! [i]I don't know what that means.[/i] Whatever is going on on the backend, the search index is buff.
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1 ReplyUhh, I don't know what any of that means when I search my name. Nonetheless, this is pretty awesome. How did this come about?
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1 Reply[quote]Betweenness Centrality: 0.0 Modularity Class: 5 Eccentricity: 3.0 Closeness Centrality: 2.1904761904761907[/quote] In human/English please?
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7 RepliesIt's all okay being inspired by this. But not knowing how you programmed this is torture.
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1 Reply[quote]What I did was examine each member of HFCS, download a list of each of the users who were following them, then arrange everyone in a directed graph where each edge between a node is directed from the source (the person following) to the target (the person being followed), in this case a member of HFCS. I then plugged all of it into some visualisation software and then exported it to different formats.[/quote]Source code?
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1 ReplyHow did you get a program to iterate through every HFCS member?
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Edited by duck: 9/15/2014 5:23:34 PMSo it includes who is following them, but not who they are following? I think a follower/following comparison would also prove interesting, even if the results reach a similar communal conclusion.
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1 ReplyI don't know what I'm looking at but it's pretty and I like it.
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That's. . . really cool, and somewhat humbling.
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I'll check this out later.
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This is a photo of what the ninjas would look like if they became one and turned into a jellyfish. DeeJ would be the head.
