Friend networks graphing

[towerless]

I've been recently thinking about various graphical ways to represent online communities, those in LJ in particular. There is a bunch of tools that build one sort of graph or another, but none seem to provide a good view of a community the user in question is a part of. While investigating this problem I've built a prototype tool that tries to

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Welcome to the party!

[mcfnord]

http://ljmindmap.com/h.aspx?n=towerless

Re: Welcome to the party!

[woofiegrrl]

That's very cool. How does it work? Can it be made to show the friend group clusters, like towerless's first picture? I'd really love to see if that worked the way I think it would for me, but I don't know how to run what he did.

[mcfnord]

i use color
http://ljmindmap.com/h.aspx?n=woofiegrrl

sometimes it works better than others

[woofiegrrl]

Oh! I could swear mine didn't have color before. But I can definitely see the grouping with it. (Although my dad seems to have ended up in the same group as my queer friends, which is odd!) Thanks for that!

[mcfnord]

maybe daddy has a secret