The FlickrVerse, April 2005 poster: flickr's social network

I love the little miniclusters like this!

there i am!!!

I'm curious to know the characteristics of the people in the cross-cluster connecting zones such as this

Stewart and Caterina

In good company!

Hi! I'm here!

GNE cluster

The FlickrVerse, April 2005 poster: flickr's social network by GustavoG.

This graph depicts the relationships between 2367 people.
I realize the "original" size of this isn't very clear at only 10% of the full size. There's also a better resolution at 20%.

How can you find yourself there? Lachie has built a People Finder! Check it out!

Read here for more info.

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quas says:

Beautiful, Gustavo. I know I say this every time, but wow! It looks great.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

Quiplash [deleted] says:

It looks GREAT. Bravo.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

GustavoG says:

I just posted a higher resolution at 20% of the full poster size. The icons can be recognized much better now.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

jaymce says:

very very cool... thank you much for this, gustavo
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

GustavoG says:

Thanks also to jbum for suggesting making this into a poster, and for all the support!
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

cobalt123 says:

It took for-ever to load the huge preview poster, but it was worth it! It was wonderful looking around and seeing online friends and seeing the little clusters people talk about. Thank you GustavoF for making us all proud and happy to be *here*.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

pmorgan says:

Gustavo - you are useful maniac! Thanks also for the link to the text file of users - made it possible to find out whether I was on the poster.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

GustavoG says:

Lachie has built a People Finder for the poster! Check it out!
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

quas says:

OK, now that is seriously nifty.

Now we need to turn the poster into a giant imagemap that links to each user's profile page.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

GustavoG says:

It's a bit more complicated than a single cutoff. See the first description of the algorithm, though I tweaked it a bit, and added some overrides...
The main idea was to produce the most meaningful graph possible in terms of network structure (not just three main clusters), and include as many people as possible, without the icons becoming too tiny to view.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

CottonCandy says:

Gustavo, thanks again!
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

GustavoG says:

New version of the People Finder by Lachie: click on an icon to identify the user!
Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

Quiplash [deleted] says:

And it gets a mention at The Social Software Weblog ;-)
Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

Galanthus says:

Hello GustavoG,
I have been trying to read through posts of all you flicrland pictures to learn about your studies… It is very facinating and the question I have left is… if you would be willing to share more details about how you gather your data, and do your analysis?

I understand that all the data is puplic available and that you use a perlscript to crawl through the data… but I would like to understand the details of this works.

I ask because I am about to write my thesis at the IT-University of Copenhagen about online social networks – and your work is probably the most interesting I have found on the subject so far.

Kind regards
Carsten
Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

pecus says:

I am always amazed at your work, both research and fun.
Over here (I'm sure you'll get it) it goes by the hip-hop phrase: Massimo Rispetto.
Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

ocherdraco says:

Somehow this happened without me noticing it! Alas, I'm not in the people finder. :(
Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

Uno - 10and5 says:

NUTS!! crazy!! mad!! love it!!
Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

hufse says:

I'm missing :(

great graph anyway GG
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

.natalie says:

Completely, amazingly awesome.
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

Kren [deleted] says:

I managed to find myself without the finder! :)
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

Tatiana Cardeal says:

great work Gustavo! really cool :)
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

Patrick.T says:

i was looking at this for ages and kept spotting people whose photos i love looking at and thinking it was cool. then i realized that it wasn't the people i knew who made it special but the massive amount of people i'm yet to know.
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

GustavoG says:

Well said. :)
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

mediatoolsEC.com [deleted] says:

Great job GustavoG, I post your pic on my blog at blog.mediatoolsec.com so if you whish feel free to visit us do it.

Great job again
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

GustavoG says:

Gracias, Fernando. :)
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

Auntie K says:

What a fascinating study! This image proves how art transcends geography, language and all other barriers to our natural connection to each other. Great work!
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

nobihaya says:

incredible! I want to fly-thru within this universe!
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

Kidsturk says:

It's a supremely awesome achievement, Gustavo, well done.

The fact that there was an algorithm behind the selections and networking analysis means that I can deal with my absence through the fun of exploring the links between all the people I'm contacts with who ARE in there!

Well done.
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

b_unit says:

dag...i missed out on being in the flickrverse this time around. i gotta say... even without me its still pretty awesome...nice work.
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

mcsixth says:

Wow,...I feel like a rockstar, I surrounded by Emdot, Special and Javajive...
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

Apocaplops says:

love it love it, but it'd be nice with me in it. : (

How do you get in to this exclusive club?
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

FoxKat says:

So cool! I'll add my voice to the hopeful who want to be in the next one. It's so beautiful!
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

!efatima says:

Looking forward to many many more. Awesome work!
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

Daveblog says:

Imagine what you could do once mainstream home computers are capable of immersive 3D environments! I just got a chill. ;-)
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

Daveblog says:

Sorry for two comments in a row, but you inspired me. :-)

Might be cool to do one of these monthly and at the end of the year create an animation to "watch" clusters appear and grow over time.
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

GustavoG says:

I am indeed collecting network data monthly. Based on them I'm starting to do some analyses of change over time.
It would be beautiful to see the network change, but since the layout can vary a lot in each run to accomodate the data, most chances are that successive graphs could look very different from each other. I wouldn't count on making a "time lapse" movie. :)
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

sparquay says:

are these just people with pro accounts?

edit:nevermind I read how you got the networks. Very cool idea though. :/edit
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

Emerald2098 says:

This is super-cool!

It would be even cooler if I were there! hehehe j/k

What a great idea.
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

Kees Smans says:

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Would you please add it to the group Flickr - Interesting daily #1 moments?
It will be a great addition!
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Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

irodman says:

That´s the best Human Supernova I´ve ever seen!
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

♥fumfum♥ says:

COOL!
Posted 51 months ago. ( permalink )

Aleem 3.0 says:

Cool...

would have been better if i was in it too! :)
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

GustavoG says:

7777 views - thanks all for visiting! I'm glad you enjoyed this, here, in the People Finder or printed as a poster. :)
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

Mernas says:

This is incredible Gustavo! even more incredible because I thought of the idea this morning and was going to add it in the Flickr ideas space, but didn't know how to describe it (a kind of visiual map of relationships throughout flickr), now it is even more amazing that I found this (thanks to you visiting my workstream) on the same day?! what a strange strange conincidence!!
Now.. how did you achieve that? that's the other reason I didn't enter it this morning, I thought I lived in fantasy world and that it couldn't (or not easily at least) be done.. INCREDIBLE!!!! :)))
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

Jennaphoenix says:

no chance of being able to find me with my name. I don't understand how this is done or made, it's all very... wierd but facinating. Doubt Im on there anyhow ;)
Posted 49 months ago. ( permalink )

♥fumfum♥ says:

cool! I saw a person I knew in there!
Posted 49 months ago. ( permalink )

altons images says:

Very cool. Thanks, Gustavo.
Posted 49 months ago. ( permalink )

mimbrava says:

Thanks for adding this to the Interestingness pool.
Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

๓ậтëø says:

wow!
very nice.
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

caz_in_Brisvegas says:

Nice one Gustavo! It's amazing! In fact I'm going to have to go and have another look at it...
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

apreussler [deleted] says:

When will there be the next flickrverse picture? :-)
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

mikekalamenios says:

Wow!!! How did you do this and how long did it take you?
Posted 43 months ago. ( permalink )

brainylagirl says:

this is so cool!
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

moonlit glow says:

wild! you brain types amaze me. :)
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

edujota says:

I once saw a video of how a Wiki page set evolved over time - if you get enough snapshots of this and are able to provide some continuous transitions we could see...something beautiful I'm sure. Like looking at ourselves, from afar, through a microscope....Thanks
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

--Tico-- says:

Oh my... how did I ever miss this ?? Very cool, shame that guy didn't credit you for this work.
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

GustavoG says:

Thanks to the stats feature, I just found out that this graphic was used to illustrate someMIT OpenCourseWare: This image shows how some Flickr users are linked in social networks. Assignments 6 and 7 in this course focus on modeling a social network.

Glad you found it useful!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

↕↓↑ ŅõẇἇḸ - ⱪṧἇ ↑↓↕ says:

Three-dimensional creativity is very real. Messages more than I have seen many wonderful pictures that talk about this kind of photography special is classified as one of the most difficult types of photography, especially taking a picture of many planets in one frame
Thank you for the picture is more cool
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

notdemon says:

greeeeeaaaat !
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

jason.sunam says:

WOW!!!
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

Colin Purrington says:

So those clumps aren't language or continent effects?
Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink )

GustavoG says:

Some are, some are not.
Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink )

whossein says:

I saw this in MIT OpenCouseWare subject 6.092 Introduction to Software Engineering in Java

really great image
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Nuragic Man says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Flickr Global, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Thanks.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

Carol Cooper-Taylor says:

Thanks, have used in a professional development workshop
Posted 2 weeks ago. ( permalink )

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