MindMap meme

[cellio]

I think this person's server must be getting hammered; I requested this "mind map" (friend-clumping analysis, it appears) several days ago after seeing it in someone else's journal. I assume that bigger and whiter = more of a nexus among other people I list as friends, or something like that.

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[cellio]

Yes, version 2 seems to be doing much better at keeping the web server up, but generation still takes several days -- which tells me that there's a long queue.

The site provides information about how the generator works, but little about how to actually read the map. Are proximity and size/boldness reporting the same thing, or are they reporting different variables? And is this just a report of number of links among my frineds, or is that taken as a portion of overall number of links involving these people? Will someone whose friends list exactly duplicates mine be close, big, and bold? What if that person has 300 other friends? I haven't made the effort to slog through the detailed technical explanation; I wish they'd provided a paragraph on what the visualization itself means.

But still, it's a neat toy.