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8652 sats \ 17 comments \ @supratic 17h Design

A little experiment finding new ways to explore territories and how they are all interconnected... well. most of them!

A reminder to continue working on this was #1011428 and today #1015130. The data is sourced from top territories page, so it should include all of them.

Nothing fancy, is just an experiments, ideally I'd like it to subcategorize posts and expand each territory visualizing its contents. Maybe better data will come when subterritories will arrive!

Anyhow, hope to inspire SN team to provide new ways for contents discoverability

Interactive map available at https://jsbin.com/kubiwarovu/edit?output

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125 sats \ 11 replies \ @Undisciplined 17h

Looks neat, but I don’t have much intuition about how to interpret it.

42 sats \ 9 replies \ @supratic OP 17h

yeah the image does not provide enough info. in the interactive map the circles are selectable/clickable, highlighting the connection with other territories and providing its data in the top right card.

0 sats \ 8 replies \ @Undisciplined 17h

What does it mean for territories to be connected?

42 sats \ 7 replies \ @supratic OP 17h

that have similar or related topics for example:

  // Location-based clusters
        { source: "sanfrancisco", target: "startups", strength: 6 },
        { source: "sanfrancisco", target: "tech", strength: 5 },

The first line is the topic that stands at higher level than territories. In this case, the archived territory ~sanfrancisco is related with ~startups and ~tech by a strenght value

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 17h

How did you calculate the strength of the connection?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @supratic OP 16h

totally subjective for now...

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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined 17h

Gotcha

I thought it might be about something like shared zappers.

42 sats \ 3 replies \ @supratic OP 16h

that could be another way to visualize and filter data... but I think zaps are anonymous, not sure it would be possible. A question for SN team!

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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark 14h

What? It obviously shows AskSN as the best one.

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 17h

this is pretty cool! I've been working on some territories data myself and this could be really helpful!

The size of the circles seems to be based on number of posts. And I like how you grouped them by larger topic or field. A couple questions:

How did you derive the active users number?
Is the connection between two circles determined by number of users who post in both?

Seems like it could be a really fun way to explore what users are doing on SN.

17 sats \ 0 replies \ @supratic OP 17h

Seems like it could be a really fun way to explore what users are doing on SN. indeed! more filters could be applied too, like data range and deeper analysis on territory specific data... with the API i guess it will be possible to derive the most use words on each and start categorizing posts accordingly. it will also give a good guesstimate for possible subterritories.

How did you derive the active users number?

Oh that's random!

Is the connection between two circles determined by number of users who post in both?

No is by adjacent topic, you can see how the territories are related to eachother in the js file, just after the territories list. For example ~lightning

 // Lightning network connections
        { source: "lightning", target: "nostr", strength: 7 },
        { source: "lightning", target: "builders", strength: 6 },
        { source: "lightning", target: "litdevs", strength: 8 },
        { source: "lightning", target: "bitdevs", strength: 6 },

the strength is kinda of a subjective value... but it could be derived with the APIs too. I can make it more accurate with real data, not sure how to get API access though