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"Visualizing Facebook Friends" was created using R
- sthatipamala 16y agoR seems pretty amazing. Any suggestions on how to go about learning it?
- tommi 16y agoI can't imagine why the regular route of learning would not work with every language: wet your appetite with tutorials and then do a small project with it to grasp it better.
- rflrob 16y agoI, for one, would love to see the drawing code, even if it's totally data free. Nothing else I see on the R Graph Gallery (http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/thumbs.php http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/thumbs.php) looks remotely as good as the fb graph, and sharing code like this is a great way to promote the language.
- arvinjoar 16y ago'I created an ordering based on the length of the lines, so that longer lines were drawn “behind” the shorter, more local lines. Then I used colorRampPalette() to generate a color palette from black to blue to white, and colored the lines according to order they were drawn.' If I am understanding this correctly (I'm probably not), longer lines would never be as bright as short lines. Why? Let's say hypothetically, that all Bostonians had at least 10 friends in Madrid, then wouldn't we want to see that as a white line on the chart? Please correct me if I am wrong.
- rlivsey 16y agoHe addresses that in the paragraph before: My first attempt at plotting the data involved plotting very transparent lines. Unfortunately there was just too much data to get a meaningful plot — even at very low opacity, there were enough lines to make the entire image just a bright blob.
- invisiblefunnel 16y agooriginal post: http://paulbutler.org/archives/visualizing-facebook-friends/ http://paulbutler.org/archives/visualizing-facebook-friends/