Click and drag, Tai. Though I guess you found out, since you just edited your post

Also, Rand's KI # is publicly available? I don't remember seeing this mentioned elsewhere... I'm only aware of Chogon's number, which he said was 124 (IIRC) in one of the server recovery status updates.

Well, lots, but not everyone. Okay, I think I found it, now.
I think I found my number, too.

...As each person (theoretically) moves, the relational lines would move. Is that right? Can you imagine the 3D image of it?

It would be way cool to see even a 2D dynamic animation of the graph as the network changes over time.

I would be interested in knowing privately which number I am (Christian Walther, KI 93841), but I agree that the whole public graph is better off with fully anonymous dots.

It would be interesting to see what the clusters are that you have identified (not on the interactive graph, just labeled on a screenshot). There seem to be different varieties of clusters and I’m curious if explanations can be found why they look the way they do.

It occurred to me that the buddiness graph may not necessarily provide a complete picture of the social relationships among players: Many of my closest Uru friends are not on my buddy list – because they are my neighbors! There was never a need to add them to the buddy list because I already see them on the neighbor list. Taking into account neighborness as additional edges probably wouldn't lead to anything sensible either though, as the number of edges grows quadratically with the neighborhood size and it would soon drown out the buddy edges, neighborhoods are disjoint so you would just get disconnected clusters, and neighbor relationships can span a large range of social proximity that you have no way of quantifying. Maybe coloring the dots by neighborhood would be interesting though?

I had the same thought re: neighbors...although I was curious about how many people that would apply to. ... Coloring the dots by neighborhood is possible, but there were 5,747 hoods on that date and not enough colors

I may see if I can find a way to add lines for neighborhood relationships and re-layout the graph just to see if anything interest emerges.

Is this a snapshot of one 'moment' in time on March 9, 2011? Or is this an image of the cumulative interactions among explorers/the bot/don'tknowhowtoaskthat on that day?

As I understand it, it's a snapshot of every avatar in existence on that day with lines linking to the avatars they had on their Buddies list at that moment.

if someone wasn't online at the moment, they would not appear in the snapshot? I'm just trying to get an idea of the actual scope of the Cavern population in a visual way.

Oh, I see your point. No, I don't believe they had to be online at the time. It's a record of the current avatars in existence in the vault on that date.

And, I should probably shut up now

Check your PMs

Coloring the dots by neighborhood is possible, but there were 5,747 hoods on that date and not enough colors

This.

...although it is pretty! ....

You can see all of the little clusters forming, most likely because of the smaller neighborhoods.

This is a MASSIVE amount of data (1115406 edges), so I need to trim the data set a bit. I tried a number of things and decided to not include neighbor connections for DRC hoods. Why? Because that eliminates avatars stuck in their hoods who never did anything but still have 50 connections because they're in a DRC hood. Yes, I realize some people stayed in their DRC hood just because, but I've got draw the line somewhere. And, joining another hood is something you do because you want to be with those people. That to me is a clear indication of a good connection. (It also reduces the number of connections from 1115406 to 290920)