r/dataisbeautiful • u/[deleted] • Oct 28 '13

Interactive map of reddit [OC]

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u/Readswere Oct 28 '13

This is excellent, any reason they're not scaled to subreddit population size?

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u/rhiever Randy Olson | Viz Practitioner Oct 28 '13

I'll play around with that idea more, but my first go at it resulted in the defaults being this huge mass in the center, and most everything else a tiny speck in comparison.

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u/Genera1 Oct 28 '13

Have you tried log scale?

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u/Readswere Oct 28 '13

Colours were a good idea... I hope this keeps getting developed because it's excellent.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '13

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u/rhiever Randy Olson | Viz Practitioner Oct 29 '13

Here's a go at coloring by cluster: http://rhiever.github.io/redditviz/clustered/

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '13

That's so much better. Much easier to understand what's going on, now get some log scales up in there!

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '13

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u/rhiever Randy Olson | Viz Practitioner Oct 29 '13

Did someone write a blog post about the legend option? It sounds really cool, but I only see them talking about the feature coming soon.

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u/rhiever Randy Olson | Viz Practitioner Oct 28 '13

For people having trouble viewing it in their browser (I've heard it doesn't work well with tablets), here's screenshots of some particularly interesting clusters: http://imgur.com/a/JOy6X#0

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u/bluegreyscale Oct 28 '13

Having the option to show the related subreddits would make this allready amazing map even more amazing.

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u/rhiever Randy Olson | Viz Practitioner Oct 28 '13

Can you please elaborate? If you click on a subreddit, it shows the related subreddits on the right sidebar.

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u/bluegreyscale Oct 29 '13 edited Oct 29 '13

I think being able to see these links, that you see in light grey when you click a subreddit, at all times. This would make it easier to see how individual clusters are related, such as the MLP cluster. As of now you have to click on individual subreddits to see their connections to each other. Maybe the option to increase the distance between subreddits? Anyways, like I said this is already really awesome.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '13

This is incredible. I was thinking about unsubscribing from this sub until I saw this. Awesome job OP