Status reports on adding links on the Graph Commons interactive visual

Looks impressive!

It is totally fun to play with it on the platform

https://graphcommons.com/graphs/9caebf55-e107-4cf4-9c43-d8741cfd6d9...

Harald Tveit Alvestrand come see!

Dan Cornett see what you've caused? :)

Erica: I will not confess how many hours it took me to put this together. (I built the graph one connection at a time) :-( But, as I said above, I learned a lot along the way.

I've not been well recently. Not being able to go out has provided extra hours to be obsessive-compulsive.

I look forward to the day that we can highlight geni profile fields and then export them in spread-sheet form to a platform like GraphCommons...
A problem is that field data can be incomplete, variable, and/or corrupt. In those cases you have to go back and edit... (very time consuming!) This graph includes fewer than 100 individuals too...

> on the blood lines genetic or by marriage, I have yet to envision a way to capture that data ... but I'm sure you tech-ies out there do...

ttfn,
MvB

re: exporting

Yes, the GraphCommons import has to be rather 'clean'.

What I've done to help when I import data is to make a '2nd sheet' (on the spreadsheet) which pulls out just the 'clean' columns of data in a form GraphCommons is happy with. I found that makes it simpler to update the "master data" page and do the import to GraphCommons from the 'clean' page.

Suggestion: Use the "Force Atlas 2" (rather than "Force Directed" (option on the "play" button) ... I think that shows groupings much more clearly!

I note you have multiple "emigrated from" edges between a country and one person (for a few of the people). Unless there is a specific reason, I think it'd be clearer to collapse them to one 'edge'.

Dan:

These edges propagate by themselves. It seems to be a programming flaw. I delete them but they show up again & again & again...

I emailed a query to Graph Commons. They have not answered... It has been days... ;(

"pleurez, pleurez mes yeux, et fondez-vous en eau"

Dan:
That suggestion about using Force Atlas 2 was right on the mark.
The only problem is that it obscures the list of individuals from whom I still have notcross referenced GENI profiles.

Can you now point me to a page that help me understand how to import a spreadsheet from geni to graphcommons? Or, does this as yet not exist.....

How powerful a technique that would be!

Thanks for your help Dan Cornett

BTW: I think I may have a very similar guitar... your photo resembles a 1950s era Martin..
:)
~• Mike

https://graphcommons.com/graphs/9caebf55-e107-4cf4-9c43-d8741cfd6d9...

Dan Cornett :

I'd like to add you as a collaborator on this graph. If you wish, please send me the name/email you use on graphcommons so I can send you an invite..
~•regards,
Mike

Alex Moes and Erica:

I just had to laugh...
Getting down to the final few who still needed identification, I was stumbling and sputtering over Jacob Huyck who signed his name Jacob Hugens.... I wasn't making any headway... Then I found it: Come to figure out: Jacob is the grandson of Peter Minuet (!)

I bet Peter M. would have been rolling over in his watery grave, to hear that his grandson had thrown in the towel on defending old Manatoes Island... ;)

~• Mike

I updated Edges-Social with a couple curators I've met this summer.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vkLU5RV8goNCDoXzOdfPQv-wVYN...