I included the chart here in case folks want to refer to it.
I think it would be cool if there were an official Hubski graph of links between users updated constantly, like the last.fm artist maps.
you should write it the api is supposed to come out soon.
Man, I'd love to have that as a project! For reddit, I wrote a pretty simple program that checked reddit every few days an sorted through the connections and began to rank users: It ranked who was the most "successful" link submitters (in terms of amount of votes compared to number of items submitted) as well as the most "successful" commenters (in terms of comment-to upvote ration). For commenters, it also looked for trends with other commenters. I found that this was only really useful in smaller subreddits where individuals could actually emerge as being known by their reputation (this is ignoring "power users" who mostly become famous through promiscuity alone). It was rather interesting to see that users could mostly only really be "influential" in smaller subreddits/communities where individual merit could be noticed.
keep me in the loop I could use some better methods of data extraction.
Well, like you'd said: this largley depends on there being an API for hubski. Reddit has an awesome API that's simple to jump right into (it uses JSON, a pretty intuitive way of storing data, as well as a drop dead simple way of accessing it). Without it, I'd pretty much be forced to do page scraping, and that's just not a lot of fun (and it's made a bit tougher because most user data is actually retrieved via javascript in the page and is dynamic, not stored on a static page). I can't wait for the Hubski API to come out!
So on a complete tangent, your background picture is taking me back to our discussion on Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah. We were interpreting it with slight variations through Judaic and Christian lenses respectively. Since then I've occasionally fantasizes about his input as its one of my favorite songs by him. Anyway, Leonard just played recently and a good friend I see a lot of shows with (his cousin is in a pretty famous LA band) was lamenting how his cousin in said band saw L play and had dinner with him afterwards...and had she known he was into it we could have easily gone too. We were groaning. I'd have definitely asked him his thoughts. So close :)
The question is what verses does he leave out? when he does it live.
And why does he leave them out? What factors? I have to imagine that he views live performances as a chance to deliver the latest version of the living documents that are his poems. Edit: also, you always have the most aesthetic visualizations for your data...
I hear sometimes he makes up new ones there is something like a million verses to that song.
People should remember that thenewgreen and mk share a LOT of posts. Therefore, if you see a post you like it may not be actually posted by mk or thenewgreen, just shared by them and you should follow the original poster in order to have the best experience.
thenewgreen
followed users: 196
posts per day: 1.96
posts shared per day: 6.54 mk
followed users: 35
posts per day: 1.85
posts shared per day: 2.27 thenewgreen is the firehose, not me. ;)People should remember that thenewgreen and mk share a LOT of posts.
You were at my wedding and you've never "followed" me. Honestly, I love that. That's what makes this Hubski and not FB. You're seriously missing out on some great #beatles posts though.
I've never claimed otherwise, I Hubski how I Hubski.
good advice. I found when not following kleinbloo I only see his good posts.
What tools are you using to make these graphs?