- Rendering a simple tree like this would work just as well, if better, in text only format (like the output of the "tree" command on linux) : https://justpaste.it/6r9un
- The classification also seems a bit manual and arbitrary.
Maybe giving each node a weight would make d3 worth using ? Maybe scrap the subscribers of each subreddit, and make a force directed "map of reddit nsfw" ?
Your skills seem wasted on this if you're good at d3
But feel free to do a fork and a viz in this line: https://codepen.io/brendandougan/pen/PpEzRp
There are quite a few maps of Reddit according to co-participation in subreddits.
Though it does not make it semantic. (Maybe semantic things can be extracted from the post content; though, I didn’t try.)
If I were to do so, I know more suitable methods, vide description from https://github.com/stared/tagoverflow/. Without such normalization, it won't work given that there are networking with different orders of magnitude of users.
Right now don't have much time for this project, and well - I am this kind of person that has a few dozen times for idea than time, not the other way. :)
That's because it was basically copied from /r/NSFW411's wiki.