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teledyn 𓂀 Jan 25, 2023

Any chance of posting an animation of these? 😊

@teledyn @chiasm@venera.social

chiasm Jan 26, 2023

Well I put all the #hashtag pngs I have over the past few weeks into gimp and made an animated gif but I don't think it's that informative, sadly. I think I'd have to add titles to show the dates; and assign some of the main tags a fixed spot in the cloud, maybe...?

I kinda like it this way, a definite psychedelic vibe 😊

But perhaps mapping terms to polar coordinates, then use the text's size to repel neighbours so a growing trend pushes its way through?

chiasm Jan 26, 2023

@teledyn @chiasm@venera.social Glad you like it! I think your suggestion would work--it should be possible, particularly for someone who is used to working with some of those bouncy graphs like a concept map. But I'm a neuroscientist, not a data visualization specialist, Jim! 🤣

Ok… so… we take a few pigeons, and like those experiments at Queen's, we strap them in a little chair with those little pigeon-sized VR goggles, and we project the bouncy graph at them, if the flight muscles tense we throw a Trending alert, but also see if pigeons just don't care what's trending…

I'm sure we can get a grant!

chiasm Jan 26, 2023

@teledyn @chiasm@venera.social 🤣 🤣 That just might work...

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@chiasm @teledyn well THAT sent me down a rabbit hole--but it should be possible! It's a common enough problem (ish)... (not exactly)..

spatialanalysis.github.io/lab_…

Distance-Based Spatial Weights

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