Im in ur virtual world watchin u do stuff

Data visualisation and relationships in Second Life

Aleks Krotoski

BarCamp Brighton 2

15-16 March 2008

And this is what u look lik

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Babbage Linden

Mynci Gorky

Why is this interesting or important in the first life?

• Can identify relevance

• Can identify holes

• Can identify opinion leaders & info hubs

• Can track innovation

• Can A-B test

• Can make pretty pictures that will impress your friends

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Babbage Linden

Mynci Gorky

Robert Scoble

Mynci Gorky

What’s my point?

• These are social relationships which have psychologies which can’t (yet) be articulated through technology

• There are social flocking/network effects in these spaces

• Gosh, they’re capturing a lot of data about us