March 17, 2004
Yet more JUNG/Soylent
(Ok, I'm sticking this one in the extended entry. Unless, you know, you're really hooked on social network diagrams. Warning: yet more black and white graph pictures attached.)
So I've been ginning up images for the CSCW paper. In my last paper, I talked about the Butterfly Pattern, one in which a single person connects two contexts.
When I processed it, I noticed that it spanned two chronological periods: the white wing is an "early" wing; the dark gray is a 'later" wing.
All this is fine so far. But, you know, a little ugly. It's not really a butterfly: Kafo there kinda is leaning hard to the right side, even if he is the sole bridge between two clusters (the definition we're using). Part of this is because the right cluster is so ... plain. They're all structurally equivalent -- which means, in this case, that they're all on the same mailing list. So my program cleverly draws them as a single chunk. Kind of dull.
Then, looking through one user's data, I found this marvelous diagram. This is pretty much as perfect a butterfly pattern as a guy could want. Two contexts. Two wings. "My friends from school." "My friends from outside school." And, joining them, "my girlfriend."
