My quest this week is noteworthy a.i. researcher Randy Olson) who joins me to share his work creating the Reddit World Map) - a visualization that illuminates clusters in the reddit community based on user behavior.
Randy's blog post on created the reddit world map) is well complimented by a more detailed write up titled Navigating the massive world of reddit: using backbone networks to map user interests in social media). Last but not least, an interactive version of the results (which leverages Gephi)) can be found here).
For a benevolent recommendation, Randy suggetss people check out Seaborn) - a python library for statistical data visualization. For a self serving recommendation, Randy recommends listeners visit the Data is beautiful) subreddit where he's a moderator.
