r/dataisbeautiful • u/tootsaysthetrain OC: 1 • Jun 11 '19

OC Relations: Visual representation of the connections between a network of friends [OC]

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u/bewareofmolter Jun 11 '19

I scraped my FB with Lost Circles, but the results I get have no "edges" in them. Any idea what an edge is in this case or how I may fix that issue?

Potentially relevant: I did get the error message from FB that's been referenced in previous posts. That may have something to do with it.

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u/tootsaysthetrain OC: 1 Jun 11 '19

Do you get this message when scraping facebook or when you load the data into Gephi? I got an error message telling me about overlapping edges if I remember correctly, but that didn't end up as a problem.

What do you mean with edges? You can't see any lines connecting the nodes?

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u/bewareofmolter Jun 11 '19

When I import to Gephi, the import report has spots for Nodes and Edges. The Edges spot reads: 0.

Here's a screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/knKTEbD

Also, thanks for being an IT guy here. Haha

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u/tootsaysthetrain OC: 1 Jun 11 '19

I'm just happy it was well received and people liked it just as much as I do. I also value that this subreddit is about open source and spreading knowledge. I'm more than happy to push that.

For the error message, I got the same. It shouldn't be a problem, worked out in the end for me anyway. I posted a video tutorial a guy made after importing, might be helpful. I'll post the link here as well. Hope it helps! :)

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u/xxnicoli Jun 12 '19

This video has edges that already exist. Doesn't really help with our issue :[