Tag: graf

Have you seen my Facebook graph?

Isn’t it nice. Full of nodes and edges.

But seriously though, I have started an online course called Social Network Analysis, on Coursera.

If you don’t know about Coursera, this Ted Talk should give you an idea of how Coursera hopes to bring education to everyone through online education.


http://www.ted.com/talks/daphne_koller_what_we_re_learning_from_online_education.html

This is the second Coursera course I’m following. The first one was Algorithms, Part I, which I unfortunately didn’t finish in time. Apparently a hard deadline doesn’t mean what I think it means. You can (most likely) find my Coursera profile here.

I think the Coursera idea is fantastic, and I hope to dedicate myself to follow one course at any given time. (But who knows, maybe I will grow tired of it in a few weeks.)

Anyway, back to my Facebook graph. The image has been produced with Gephi, which is the primary tool that has been introduced in the Social Network Analysis course. I think it is a bit fun to look at the graph and think about how friends, colleagues and family are connected and how they arrange them selves, depending on the different settings of the graph-visualization software.

Graf i webbank

Jeg ved ikke præcist hvornår, men indenfor de sidste par uger er der dukket en ny mulighed op i min webbank.

Jeg er kunde i Lån og Spar Bank og har nu fået mulighed for at klikket på Vis kontobevægelser i en graf.

Det har selvfølgelig tidligere været muligt at eksportere sammenhængende data for saldo og dato, og så selv få relevant software til at tegne den ønskede graf. Men det er nu lettere at kunne få den tegnet direkte i browseren, når jeg alligevel besøger min webbank, i stedet for at skulle eksportere og åbne et lokalt program til at plotte en graf.

(Grafen ovenfor er fra Ubuntu Danmarks konto, da jeg ikke nødvendigvis finder min privatøkonomi relevant for hele internettet.)

Jeg syntes det er en rar mulighed at have og er glad for at være kunde i en bank, som udnytter de teknologiske muligheder som nettet bringer med sig.