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Exploring whether it exhibits the same properties as a real social network.",{"problem":47,"audience":56,"pricing":56,"motivation":57,"time_to_build":56,"stack":64,"openness":73,"stage":74,"team_size":75},{"value":48,"source":49,"evidence":50},"Shows whether a fictional character network has properties of a real social network.","maker",[51,53],{"id":52},"post",{"id":54,"by":11,"text":55},"7374140","That's a great question! I kinda wanted to see if a fictional network would look somewhat similar to a real social network such as Facebook. But exploring other networks that are…",null,{"value":58,"source":49,"evidence":59},"Curiosity whether a fictional network looks like a real social network.",[60,61],{"id":54,"by":11,"text":55},{"id":62,"by":11,"text":63},"7374868","Good question :) I was referring mainly to the small world phenomenon [1], there are also some online networks that have ~6 avg path length like Microsoft Messenger [2]. We were…",[65],{"value":66,"source":67,"evidence":68},"D3.js","commenter",[69],{"id":70,"by":71,"text":72},"7374290","jpan135","The visuals are generated primarily using D3.js (great data visualization tool). Source: I'm on the team that worked on this. Edit: This project is open-sourced - Check it out at…","open_source","launched","team",{"praise":77,"objections":96,"requests":111,"questions":127,"alternatives":146},[78,89],{"value":79,"source":67,"evidence":80},"Interesting, cool visualization",[81,85],{"id":82,"by":83,"text":84},"7373663","languagehacker","Interesting visualization. I'm wondering where this data is coming from. You could probably construct a similar network out of all of the character pages on…",{"id":86,"by":87,"text":88},"7374505","jcutrell","It'd be really particularly interesting to understand the connections themselves with some kind of context. I'd also really like to see things like a subcollection of the…",{"value":90,"source":67,"evidence":91},"Ego network and triad analysis ideas are valuable",[92],{"id":93,"by":94,"text":95},"7375748","tokenuser","If you are referring to ego networks (the connections between your immediate connections), the visualization gets part way there. If you hover over a node, it pops up a character…",[97,104],{"value":98,"source":67,"evidence":99},"Comparing a fiction network to a real social network is not meaningful",[100],{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},"7373573","glesica","I'm not sure comparing this to a \"real\" social network is meaningful. 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