Pages are part of Facebook’s project to suck up the Web. They are also full of data. In the next version of netvizz I will add a feature that allows to dig into that data a little bit. Here is a preview:
This network (visualized with gephi) shows interactions on the Facebook page of the Guardian. I extracted all the likes and comments for the last 80 posts. On the whole, there are 9.500 users liking and commenting away. Each dark and labeled node is a post while all the others are users. A heat scale (blue => yellow => red) shows how often a user interacts with the page; size shows how often a node was liked or commented on (for pages) or liked and commented (for users).
One can see a a core of regulars in the middle of the graph, but the main engagement comes from a large majority of users that have only interacted with a single posts. These users drag the big subjects out to the margins in this specific spatialization. Engagement, here, comes from a fleeting audience rather than a more stable group or community.
There is still some testing to do, but I hope to get this feature ready soon for general use.
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Michel Godin says:
October 14, 2012 at 5:37 pm /
Hi Bernhard, I reach your post via this twit of @Gephi I will look deeper the graph, but I really like what you have done.
It encourage me! :)I’m doing a SNA course at coursera and experimentig with Gephi and it’s very very fun and interesting.
But, I have a question that would appreciate if you think you can asnwer me: What tools are you using to extract this data. You see I have an Appi to extract my own net but none the net of other public profile. I’m newbie on this
Great post, cheers!
Bernhard says:
October 14, 2012 at 5:52 pm /
Hi Michel,
Thanks! I’m using netvizz – which is probably also what you are using in the coursera class as well – but I have not yet added the pages feature to the application (some more tests to do, for the moment it breaks on very big pages like Obama’s). I will soon however.
best,
Bernhard
Michel Godin says:
October 14, 2012 at 9:08 pm /
Wow! Hi Bernhard!
I didn’t notice that you were devoloping netvizz!!! Thanks a lot for the kind asnwer to my question!! 🙂
You are rigth at coursera we are using netvizz, but an old or simplified version, cause it has only the option of “you personal network”. So, I’m very pleased that I reaches your site… sometimes we break the vicious-circle of “always the same webs” 😉
Thanks a lot for your comment,
Michel
Erik says:
October 15, 2012 at 7:39 pm /
#like
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Carlos Guadián says:
October 22, 2012 at 4:42 pm /
It sounds great Bernhard, I’ll wait for the update…
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Hannah Waldram says:
October 25, 2012 at 3:44 pm /
Hi Bernhard this is ace – I’m one of the community coordinators who helps runour main Facebook page so I found this very interesting 🙂 Would be great if you could drop me a line and tell me more!
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Andrew says:
February 5, 2013 at 4:49 am /
Hi there, love the graphs you’ve been producing. What layout did you use in Gephi for this one? Force Atlas?
Bernhard says:
February 5, 2013 at 12:25 pm /
Thanks! It’s Force Atlas 2 – very fast and very customizable.
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