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This is amazing! I love this effect of showing me that my little project that I was working on fairly solitarily is actually part of a community of other people doing similar work that I can reach out to/collaborate with etc!

What does it mean if, I click on a repo, and it shows 5-6 links to specific projects? Does that just mean the jaccard similarity index was below a threshold?

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Yes! I picked only the highest scores to form an edge in relationships graph. Typically a sigma (std deviation) or two away from the mean. So if there is a direct link between your project and others - the similarities are abnormally high.

Note that I'm not rendering direct links outside of the country yet, there might be more there. Will probably add a "focused" view to see those better

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