Visualizing Social Network Changes by Max De Marzi.
From the post:
Some relationships change over time. Think about your friends from high school, college, work, the city you used to live in, the ones that liked you ex- better, etc. When exploring a social network it is important that we understand not only the strength of the relationship now, but over time. We can use communication between people as a measure.
I ran into a visualization that explored how multiple parties where connected by communications in multiple projects. We’re going to reuse it to explore how multiple people interact with each other. So let’s make a network of 50 friends and connect them to each other multiple times. Think of it as people writing on your facebook wall.
Excellent example of using a graph database to visualize changes in a social network. Not sure if it would be robust enough to capture the social dynamics of your local high school but it might be worth a shot. 😉