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
Looks neat, but I don’t have much intuition about how to interpret it.
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.
What does it mean for territories to be connected?
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
How did you calculate the strength of the connection?
totally subjective for now...
Gotcha
I thought it might be about something like shared zappers.
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!
They aren’t (or at least weren’t) anonymous on the backend.
So is who-zapped-what available via APIs?
What? It obviously shows AskSN as the best one.
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:
Seems like it could be a really fun way to explore what users are doing on SN.
Oh that's random!
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
This is cool.
Very cool
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