This is something I produced last year, as a part of the Open Publishing Lab so unfortunately the source isn’t available as of yet, but it’s still worth nothing.

The below is a visualization of the results of a social networking game we ran at a festival last May. Hit the link for all the details, but the gist of the game is people trade barcode stickers with people who share at least one interest out of a pool of 8 or so. Those people who connect are scanned in via a normal scanner, an application rips the barcodes and stuffs them into a database. Once those links in the database are made, it’s a bit hard to visualize it all. This is where my part came in: visualising all the people via a wheel.

The wheel was created in PHP, using a little trig, and a lot of tweaking. The output can accomdate a virtually unlimited amount of people and links. Plus, it’s pretty to look at. The wheel has gotten a lot of mileage (no pun intended) on a lot of the promotional material for the OPL.