[p2pu-webcraft] visualization of p2pu user data

[Dan Diebolt]

Sure an API would be nice but is it a priority when it is very easy to
scrape the same info?

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:04 AM, John Britton <public at johndbritton.com>wrote:

> I think these kinds of things are perfect for making the case for a P2PU
> API.
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> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Dan Diebolt <dandiebolt at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> In 15 minutes I wrote a three dozen line bookmarklet<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookmarklet>in javascript to scrape P2PU website user
>> pages <http://p2pu.org/en/Philipp/> for the "following" relationships
>> starting from an initial set of 20 "active this week" users listed on the
>> home page. I then wrote out the GraphViz <http://www.graphviz.org/> file
>> and rendered it using the Neato layout engine. When I get another 15 minute
>> bock of time I might use canviz <http://code.google.com/p/canviz/> or
>> processing <http://ejohn.org/blog/processingjs/>. Had I described my work
>> in the context of "standup" I might not have run afoul of the being off
>> declared topic.
>>
>> In any event the numbers I reported and the published number of ~1000
>> "members" is more reflective than the 20,000 statistic.
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