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Pivot – Facebook Friends
Today, I finished up a simple example of what you can do with Pivot from Microsoft's Live Labs. The concept is simple: Using the powerful data visualization tool that is Pivot, it is possible to visualize the wide range of information that Facebook tracks about all of its users and what is available to you regarding your Facebook friends. This demo is just the tip of the iceberg. Currently, it displays your friends’ places of employment, colleges, sex, wall post counts, “About Me,” name, profile picture, and birth date. I intend to have this app display much more information. I will be working on it over the next week or so in order to expand its potential.
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December 1st, 2009 - 01:16
Matt,
It’s great to see people building some collections for Pivot! I’ve got a few tips for you as someone who has built a couple of collecitons.
Consider changing the datatype of ‘About Me’ to be long string. This will make it not visible in the filters on the left and give it a nicer display for the infopane on the right. Alternately, you can set the IsFilterVisible property on the FacetCategory to false. This will make it not show up in the filters, but still show up on the info pane.
Also, you’ll get much better imagery performance if you pull the jpegs from the facebook service and build them into a deep zoom collection. Though it is cool to have them pulling straight out of the facebook API. That won’t scale for you for lots of items though (you can put thousands in if you pull the images out and put them in the deep zoom collection.)
Thanks for playing with our stuff, and be sure to give feedback at our user forums (http://www.getsatisfaction.com/live_labs_pivot)
Chris Dickens
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December 1st, 2009 - 01:22
Ack, I was confused. I see that you do have the images in the deep zoom collection, nice.
Good work!