Visualizing the user post migration paths across Reddit to extract linked communities
Someone was kind enough to crawl all of Reddit.com and produce a TB sized extract of all posts . This was cool. I ran it through a small loop that said for each author if they post next in another subreddit (link strength from old sub to new sub)++" Then some trimming: keep the top 5 outbound connections from each sub, and top 20 inbound links. Mix with some gephi layout and coloring , and voilà - how everything is connected! It would be fun to do a neurons firing lightning sort of animation - "pick a starting place based on popularity, and fire/light up one possible path the author takes from there"
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