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First attempt at plugging Twitter social network into force directed layout using protovis. Doesn't work...:-( Race condition.. Need to hold off rendering the graph till all the data is in...
<html><head><title></title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../protovis-3.2/protovis-r3.2.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
//getNet is where we get a list of Twitter usernames
function getNet(){
url="http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=jisc11&rpp=100&callback=?"
// maybe need to consider paging here to get more than 100 results
// - (rpp - results per page - is capped at 100
// - twitter api allows you to get up to 1500 tweets (15 pages of rpp=100))
$.getJSON(url,function(json){
users=[]
uniqusers={}
for (var u in json['results']) {
uniqusers[json['results'][u]['from_user']]=1
}
for (var uu in uniqusers)
users.push(uu)
getConnections(users)
})
}
//getConnections is where we find the connections between the users identified by the list of Twitter usernames
function getConnections(users){
// Google social api limits you to requesting social data from 50 urls
// Need to tweak this to page blocks of 50 users and make repeated requests
if (users.length>50)
users=users.slice(0,49)
str=''
for (var uic=0; uic<users.length; uic++)
str+='http://twitter.com/'+users[uic]+','
url='http://socialgraph.apis.google.com/lookup?q='+str+'&edo=1&callback=?';
//url='http://socialgraph.apis.google.com/lookup?q=http://twitter.com/'+$('#user1').val()+',http://twitter.com/'+$('#user2').val()+'&edo=1&edi=1&callback=?';
$.getJSON(url,function(json){
graph={}
graph['nodes']=[]
userLoc={}
for (var uic=0; uic<users.length; uic++){
graph['nodes'].push({nodeName:users[uic]})
userLoc[users[uic]]=uic
}
graph['links']=[]
for (u in json['nodes']) {
name=u.replace('http://twitter.com/','')
for (var i in json['nodes'][u]['nodes_referenced']){
si=i.replace('http://twitter.com/','')
if ( si in userLoc ){
if (json['nodes'][u]['nodes_referenced'][i]['types'][0]=='contact')
graph['links'].push({source:userLoc[name], target:userLoc[si]})
}
}
}
followers={}
followers={nodes:graph['nodes'],links:graph['links']}
});
}
$(document).ready(function() {
users=['psychemedia','mweller','mhawksey','garethm','gconole','ambrouk']
getConnections(users)
//getNet()
})
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="center"><div id="fig">
<script type="text/javascript+protovis">
//This code is grabbed directly from a protovis example
//The code seems to run in an event loop:
// -- how do we get it to wait until the follower data is read?
var w = document.body.clientWidth,
h = document.body.clientHeight,
colors = pv.Colors.category19();
var vis = new pv.Panel()
.width(w)
.height(h)
.fillStyle("white")
.event("mousedown", pv.Behavior.pan())
.event("mousewheel", pv.Behavior.zoom());
var force = vis.add(pv.Layout.Force)
.nodes(followers.nodes)
.links(followers.links);
force.link.add(pv.Line);
force.node.add(pv.Dot)
.size(function(d) (d.linkDegree + 4) * Math.pow(this.scale, -1.5))
.fillStyle(function(d) d.fix ? "brown" : colors(d.group))
.strokeStyle(function() this.fillStyle().darker())
.lineWidth(1)
.title(function(d) d.nodeName)
.event("mousedown", pv.Behavior.drag())
.event("drag", force)
//comment out the next line to remove labels
//.anchor("center").add(pv.Label).textAlign("center").text(function(n) n.nodeName)
vis.render();
</script>
</div></div>
</body></html>
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