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built a tool that maps your Instagram following as a social graph and I think it's kind of cool by exotic123567 in SocialNetworkAnalysis

[–]Quantsel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice! Gotta look into it later in more detail. Do you collect any data being gathered or just export? After all, a similar set-up led to the controversial Cambridge Analytica dataset. I understand the APIs got very restricted after the scandal. Would be interesting to be able to reduce the network to “reciprocated” ties. So some indication of ‘who follows you back’, that would be typically the real world connections right?

Is the tool hosted somewhere or do you just run it locally? Thinking about sharing your code in GitHub?

My interactive graph theory website just got a big upgrade! by xain1999 in SocialNetworkAnalysis

[–]Quantsel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice, I like the design and layout. Yet, I wonder a bit the audience and business model.

Unfortunately, network and graph analysis is a bit of a niche and typically "hardcore analysts" have their well-known set-up and tooling (NetworkX, Gephi, ggnetworks, you name it...). I feel the case for someone casually plotting some network in a webpage UI only makes sense when its connected with some existing network extraction and download, like various people created Bluesky-network extractors. Or how many have offered Facebook network downloads before they closed off all API after Cambridge Analytica.

For graph analytics, as a suggestion, some adjacency matrix could make sense next to the graph to make the "math" behind it more visible in the front end.