GitHub is a large community where coders can collaborate on software development projects. People check code in and out, make edits, etc. Franck Cuny maps this community (with Gephi), based on information in thousands of user profiles.
The above is a map colored and sorted by the main language of each person (PHP, Python, Perl, Javascript, or Ruby).
Cuny then looks at the structure within the coding networks, which is the most interesting part of the project. The Python map, for example, shows several projects, with Django in the dominant center.
In contrast, the PHP map is a lot more segregated.
I do wish there were some labels for the clusters so that I knew what exactly I was looking at, but if you like, you can download the the files (bottom of post) and explore them in Gephi yourself. See the rest of the graphs over on Flickr.
[Thanks, Steven]
more great pics nathan! nice work!
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Wouldn’t this be much more meaningful if the graphs were overlaid on a world map? Otherwise seems to be so much artwork…
geographic might be useful, but this layout is meaningful too. profiles are positioned by the similarities in projects that the people participate in.
Yeah, who cares about how people collaborate? What we really need is to see their geographical distribution, so we can properly discriminate against people in countries we don’t like.
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Seems like just having a legend would turn this from art into an actual graph.
Legends were created so mapmakers of old could more easily change the language of their maps..It would be better to just put larger clear labels in areas where a language or project is dominant.
I’m really interested to use this graphing software.
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Hi
just to inform you that the poster is available in a high resolution here: http://fr.linkfluence.net/posters/ (more informations here http://lumberjaph.net/blog/index.php/2010/04/02/github-poster/)
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