more LJ friends analysis

[egypturnash]

More friends-list-analysis stuff. This one finds "cliques" - subgroups of mutual friends relationships. It only outputs the largest one it finds, but it didn't find one single "core" group for me.

I am a member of 18 cliques of size 8

• peganthyrus, mharpold8, spacehyena, kattything, neogeen, jonasbagel, pseudomanitou, crackjackal


• peganthyrus, mharpold8, spacehyena, kattything, neogeen, jonasbagel, sylvanmarten, mercurypale


• peganthyrus, mharpold8, spacehyena, kattything, neogeen, pseudomanitou, crackjackal, arphalia


• peganthyrus, mharpold8, spacehyena, kattything, jonasbagel, pseudomanitou, gryllus, dustmeat


• peganthyrus, mharpold8, spacehyena, kattything, jonasbagel, gryllus, dustmeat, martes


• peganthyrus, mharpold8, spacehyena, kattything, pseudomanitou, gryllus, dustmeat, ursulav


• peganthyrus, mharpold8, spacehyena, neogeen, pseudomanitou, crackjackal, spankedassassin, arphalia


• peganthyrus, mharpold8, postvixen, prickvixen, radiofreecatgrl, noirgirl, xiaomimi, robololita


• peganthyrus, spacehyena, kattything, neogeen, wolphyn, jonasbagel, pseudomanitou, crackjackal


• peganthyrus, spacehyena, kattything, neogeen, wolphyn, jonasbagel, sylvanmarten, mercurypale


• peganthyrus, spacehyena, kattything, wolphyn, jonasbagel, pseudomanitou, gryllus, dustmeat


• peganthyrus, spacehyena, kattything, wolphyn, pseudomanitou, gryllus, dustmeat, ursulav


• peganthyrus, spacehyena, kattything, wolphyn, pseudomanitou, gryllus, ursulav, mutleyjames


• peganthyrus, postvixen, prickvixen, radiofreecatgrl, winduptoy, noirgirl, xiaomimi, robololita


• peganthyrus, postvixen, prickvixen, winduptoy, wheel_of_masks, noirgirl, xiaomimi, robololita


• peganthyrus, postvixen, protocat, sythyry, yulicorn, beetiger, postrodent, laika


• peganthyrus, postvixen, sythyry, yulicorn, beetiger, perlandria, paka, laika


• peganthyrus, postvixen, sythyry, yulicorn, beetiger, postrodent, laika, lediva

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It's interesting to compare this with the Mind Map visualization of the same data from a little while back. I think all of these friend relationships were valid at the time that was generated.

What I see in both is an 'edge-of-furry artists' clustering, and a 'genderqueer/freaky edge-of-furry' one. Interestingly enough, this version sort of emphasizes the former by the fact that the same four or so people pop up with different companions (mostly a me/kattything axis), while the MindMap emphasized the latter, postvixen-centric one because they were all drawn closer to my name. They're both going off the same data - mutual LJ-friending - and getting interestingly-different results.


ps. To clean up the ugly expanded LJ info tags this script generates, you can replace <a href.*?users.*?<b>(.{,30})</b></a> with <lj user="\1">, if you have a text editor capable of doing 'regex-style' search-and-replace - it may also be called 'grep-like' or some such. Regex is a pain!

And now, I must bleach my hair into submission, fill out some unemployment stuff, and render some Flash crap into Quicktime to chase some of the leads I got this past Saturday.

Comments

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Intreestingly enough, only about half of the top eight commenters in my LJ, not counting me, are in any of these cliques.

[kamenkyote.livejournal.com]

Me neither. :P

[pseudomanitou.livejournal.com]

To each their own pattern.

I appear in 8 of your clusters, but rank #44 on posts. But from my perspective, out of all the people who did that whole 'list of commenters' thing on my friends list - yours if the first list I've even shown up in.

[turbinerocks.livejournal.com]

Was it good for you? :D