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speaking of which here's a data visualization i would absolutely *love* to have: i want a twitter genealogy like an online map of who got who onto twitter / tpot, e.g. my "parent" was

@Malcolm_Ocean

. it'd be basically a tree, kinda like this:

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goblin à la mode

@goblinodds

· Mar 8

Replying to @QiaochuYuan and @tpotvibecamp

now i'm wondering whether the organizers are gonna release a bunch of data visualizations like pornhub or okcupid used to

Aella

@Aella_Girl

Mar 8

Make a google form asking for your twitter name and the name (or names) of who got you into TPOT, and then post the dataset publicly and somebody will probably do it for you

QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

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@Aella_Girl

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@Malcolm_Ocean

oh that could work. i was thinking about trying to persuade someone to make a website that could handle the data collection too; doing it this way would be asking for less work but also it wouldn't be dynamically updatable

6:10 PM · Mar 8, 2022Twitter Web App

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no, but it also wouldn't be something you have to edit; as in it's not like the info you have updates; if you wanted to make future versions you just *add on* more limbs

QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

Mar 8

oh gotcha. so if someone makes a website that takes a .csv or similar as input and outputs the tree then i can just keep giving them updated .csvs. nice nice nice