Jure Cuhalev

Continuing my saga of visualizing Koornk social network I decided that obvious next step is to map out who talks to who and how much. For this task I used excellent Python library NetworkX that uses pygraphviz to draw the pretty pictures in the end. Just to explain what you’re looking at: I downloaded all [...]

Creating a good visualization consist of two major parts: having a robust visualization technique (wave graph in this example) having a good data set that fits to the visualization technique After I got Graphication working yesterday, I quickly realized that my initial data set doesn’t fit this technique out of the box as it was [...]

Saturdays are the days for hacking (after having a great run earlier of course). This time I’ve been preparing a network data set for a friend. The idea was to take a look at who follows who on Koornk. Tools used: their API, Python scripts and Pajek to draw the results. This is what I’ve got [...]

Slovenian Web 2.0 geek scene got a new toy a few months ago, it’s called Koornk (better Twitter). Feeling a bit blue for just writing emails lately and not programming anything nice, I decided a few days ago to roll out an one night hack – Koornk personas that tell you if you need your [...]

While building something nice on Koornk (Slovenian Twitter like service), I stopped for a few months to learn how to do Authenticated POST requests using Python. I found urllib2 way too complicated, but soon I stumbled across great Yahoo Developer page – Make Yahoo! Web Service REST calls with Python that also lists alternative approach [...]