Yes, I'm sure that makes a difference. That's why it will be much more relevant when I finish the work to identify who is truly responding to whom.
I've found that I can manually arrange the visualizations to make them much, much easier to read. And I think I can explain a little better what we're looking at. I realized that when I filter it down to those who have at least 25 links, the result is that only JDG and Julia meet the criteria, so it's only showing those who have direct links to them, along with the links among the rest (indicating who tends to "bridge" among the two of them -- a total of 127 people. JDG only shows up as an initiator; Julia shows up as both an initiator and a responder. I'm working on a visualization with lower filtering, in hopes of showing more pivotal people. Reducing it to 15 links gives me 197 people, which I'm looking at now. It looks far more interesting, showing many more pivot people. I'll try to get it on the server before getting back to earning a living this morning... Nick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Marvin Long, Jr. Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 8:08 AM To: Brin-L Subject: RE: Brin-l network visualization I'm curious: if we're tracking the first few people to respond to a thread, will time zone make a difference? For example, if the majority of listmembers are Americans, then we'd expect connections to skew towards Americans because they're more likely to respond quickly to one another than somebody in another hemisphere who might be asleep when the majority of threads are spawned. Marvin Long Austin, Texas
