Another Pretty Friend Visualization

Friend WheelYesterday I covered the TouchGraph application which provides another way to visualize your Facebook friends’ relationships. In contrast to TouchGraph which provides a method of directly interacting and controlling the visualization, Friend Wheel (created by Thomas Fletcher and Tim Halbert) creates a static wheel that displays the relationships of your friends. I have a feeling that we will see more of these visualizations in the future. This one is fairly simple but creates a great looking wheel that is displayed on your profile. While this application will add to the clutter on your page, it is fun to try it out and see what your Friend Wheel looks like. If you want a cool way to visualize the interconnectedness of your friends, go grab the Friend Wheel application.

 



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i have to say friendwheel gives a more meaningful result than the typical force directed output of touchgraph - it is interesting how persons are placed next to each other on the wheel, it really reflects their personal relationship - dont know if this is a result of the similarity measure or just my projection…

i have to say friendwheel gives a more meaningful result than the typical force directed output of touchgraph - it is interesting how persons are placed next to each other on the wheel, it really reflects their personal relationship - dont know if this is a result of the similarity measure or just my projection…

[...] graphs) it is definitely a cool app. This reminds me of the visualization provided by the Friend Wheel application. I wonder how many other ways there are to visualize your [...]

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