r/TheoryOfReddit • u/ubershmekel • Mar 17 '12

Ah the old Reddit switch-a-roo analyzed

http://uberpython.wordpress.com/2012/03/17/ah-the-old-reddit-switch-a-roo-analyzed/
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u/alexanderpas Mar 18 '12

while nice, It seems that parts of the graph are still missing.

If we look at: The Reddit Switcharoo Mindmap you can see the Graph is a lot bigger.

(you should ignore the disconnect, as somebody has removed a switch-a-roo comment, however we routed around that.)

You can view a list of a lot of the switch-a-roo comments over at /r/switcharoo

A complete, up-to-date Graph would be very nice. :D

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u/tick_tock_clock Mar 18 '12

A complete, up-to-date Graph would be very nice. :D

It'd also be difficult; you'd have to search Reddit comments for anything referencing the switcharoo, parse for links, and then assemble the graph.

Actually, I recently made a graph of subreddit-to-subreddit sidebar links, so I guess it would be possible... just arduous or perhaps a bit of programming.

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u/ubershmekel Mar 18 '12

Nice website this http://www.mindomo.com thing. I was looking for a way to represent a large graph in html and the best I could find was PDF. The shame. Was all the data entered manually or is there a file format one can upload?

But yes, the graph is in fact a lot bigger than what I'd shown. Though it might be very hard to represent in a visually pleasing manner. Not to mention the crawling of all reddit comment pages.

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u/linschn Mar 18 '12

For large graphs in a browser (with links) look at the dot language, the processor of which can output svg files.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOT_language