My name is danah boyd and I'm a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, a Research Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, a Visting Researcher at Harvard Law School, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales. I received my PhD from the School of Information at UC-Berkeley. I spend 1/3 of my time in Cambridge, MA, 1/3 in New York, NY, and 1/3 in the air. Buzzwords in my world include: public/private, identity, context, youth culture, social network sites, social media. I use this blog to express random thoughts about whatever I'm thinking.

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visualizing friendster

[from my connected selves blog]

OMG. Ben Discoe visualized Friendster from his perspective. Tell me that’s not gorgeous! ::bounce::

Of course, as he properly points out, it is only a static image from his perspective without all of the proper interconnections. And the clusters are a bit confusing because not all of those people are evenly interconnected. That’s why the visualization of an n-degree system is such a pain in the toosh.

[I should note that the first question after my SIGGRAPH talk was "Would it be possible to visualize Friendster?"]

OK.. i so want one of my own. And i so badly want to analyze this data. Wah!!

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August 6th, 2003 | Category: Uncategorized | Comments are closed

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