Show HN: Game of Angels – A force-directed graph showing key VCs interactions

[UserRights]

This reminds me of http://theyrule.net/ - it is a quite old website, still flash. It would be good to have an open format definition and an open source web frontend for visualizations like this.

The connections of your pet investor might be interesting, but there is much more potential to this if you would ask the people that did theyrule for their data, maybe you can find a way of working together?

[cam_pj]

Thanks! I did not know theyrule. Very interesting. CB Insights (someone just sent me the link: https://www.cbinsights.com/business-social-network) also have quite a few data points as well.

[gearhart]

Interesting concept. I love the connection information you can draw from Twitter, I wonder how closely it correlates to actual outbound/inbound influence.

From a purely visual (and probably pedantic) perspective, if you turn off d3's "gravity" you'll get a (marginally) more representative picture because the only forces acting on the nodes will be the links, and you don't need to worry about things floating off because you've already got one fixed point attached to all other nodes.

[cam_pj]

Thanks. I think it's definitely amazing to see how "inter-connected" (for the lack of a better word) this community of investors (especially in Silicon Valley) is.

On your second point: thing is - could be because I am not a d3 expert - when I turn off gravity, I am struggling to keep nodes within the canvas. Maybe I am missing another setting?

[shaneleonard121]

Really great idea. Thanks a mil.

[honksillet]

What is the dataset for this?

[cam_pj]

I use the Angel List API to get a list of investors. Then the Twitter API to analyse their timelines etc.