I had data about related artists pulled from LastFM.
For artist X I find 5 related artists, for which I find again 5 related artists. This I do for thousand artists.

in the D3 library I have quite a few visualizations I like at can be applicable for my design.

Hierarchical Edge Bundling
Fisheye Distortion
BeerViz

These are a few of them. What they have in common is the fact that they show the names in a round layout and show the connections between them. Yet I think my final design should more dynamic and interactive.

A general comment about the last two weeks is, that by trying to do everything at a decent level I have not managed to do one at a decent level. This should become better over the next assignment. Or otherwise lets believe the video in which they state that you have to deliver a lot of crap before something good.

I’m planning to create a quantified selfie of facebook.

Few similar projects found :

1. “themail” by Fernanda Viégas
themail is data visualization of a person’s email exchanges. Every column corresponds to email exchange with one person, the words on column show keywords used in the conversation. Interesting fact about this visualization is that you can see the evolving relationship with an individual over time.

more.

2.Found an interesting article on visualizing facebook friendships Vs geeographic locations. The generated map uses data of 500 million people.
“Visualizing data is like photography. Instead of starting with a blank canvas, you manipulate the lens used to present the data from a certain angle.” ~ Paul Butler.

More information.

3. Crazyegg does heat visualization of websites. Based on number of clicks for various facebook tabs, a heat map can be created for an individual.

website

4. Found many great examples from last year’s blog. here.

Sketches for visualization
My visualisation is going to be a city based in medieval time. I believe facebook can be imagined as digital landscape where we all have our identities and spaces. We visit and get insight into other’s spaces on internet. Just like our own house, there is a limit till which point we allow others to see our lives. I plan to create a city scape based on facebook data.

Every person will have their own castle at the center of the city. Houses around the castle will be from your friends. The vicinity to castle will depend on number of likes and shares from that particular friend. House of a friend will be upgraded depending on the the frequency of communication.