Jure Cuhalev

In spirit of eating my own dog food, I’m publishing the presentation that I’m giving tomoorow at my old faculty to undergrad class about things I live and breath – twitter, social media and branding. Probably not much for veterans reading this blog but I was surprised how many good case studies I could do [...]

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 public conversations [...]

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 one stream and [...]

I was looking at my Facebook feed today as a pattern suddenly occurred to me. From all the things people post to their account or change, almost the only one that consistently gets at least one comment from someone is when they change relationship status to a lower level. Going from married to single or [...]