{"id":2524,"date":"2013-07-15T19:52:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T03:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/?p=2524"},"modified":"2013-07-19T08:15:23","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T16:15:23","slug":"give-me-my-data-visualizations-tutorials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/give-me-my-data-visualizations-tutorials\/","title":{"rendered":"Give Me My Data visualizations \/ tutorials"},"content":{"rendered":"

I received two separate emails recently sharing images and sample code for visualization projects produced with the help of Give Me My Data<\/a>. I’m happy to share them both here:<\/p>\n

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Alex Hornbake<\/a> posted a visualization mapping Facebook friend locations and connections in D3<\/a>. You can view it here<\/a> and there’s a Gist with all the code here<\/a>. His image shows where his connections are located, or have move to or from. As abstract and beautiful as the image is, one can still make out a rough outline of the United States and even guess at specific cities like Atlanta, New York, Miami, and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Rik Van Bruggen, of Neo Technology<\/a>, used the “mutual friends graph” to create an interactive neo4j<\/a> graph database. Following is more information from the tutorial he produced<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ever since Facebook promoted its \u201cgraph search\u201d methodology, lots of people in our industry have been waking up to the fact that graphs are \u00fcber-cool. Thanks to the powerful query possibilities, people like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and let us not forget, Google have been providing us with some of the most amazing technologies. Specifically, the power of the \u201csocial network\u201d is tempting many people to get their feet wet, and to start using graph technology. And they should: graphs are fantastic at storing, querying and exploiting social structures, stored in a graph database. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n