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Show HN: Network of celebrity ice bucket challenges, visualized

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29 pointsjeffcmohr16 comments

Cofounder of Kumu here. A little about this map - we normally work with social networks and systems maps but thought it could be fun to map the ALS challenge since the format naturally built its own network based on the nominations. It's also fun to watch some of the celebs in their own element, often with their families. Hope you enjoy and this saves a bit of time searching for videos!

Fastco has a much more comprehensive (though not interactive) graphic http://www.fastcodesign.com/3034799/infographic-of-the-day/h...

Thanks for the link nthitz. In the end we ended up making an arbitrary choice of where to cut off the map. I was blown away by how many celebrities actually participated (I'd guess the actual map would be 10-20x even the Fastco one). If someone ever pulls the data together for all of it we'd love to power the larger visualization.

This is beautiful! I was always wondering how the chain tagging effect played out in this Fundraiser.

I would love to see some or all of the following in your site.

1) Influencer Count: How many people (rolled up to the individual page we are viewing) did a particular individual influence?. Example: When I click Bill Gates' face, I would like to see a count of how many people he influenced, which would be 3 he tagged + 3 * 3 that the 3 people he tagged, tagged and so on till you reach the ending roots of the terenary tree chains.

2) Top Influencers: If you implement #1, then a page showing the top influencers, by the count of how many people they influenced into taking the challenge and donating.

Any developers that are interested in network visualizations like this, please reach out! We're a bootstrapped startup and it's just me and my brother at this point. Got big plans to take the SNA world by storm! ryan@kumu.io

For those that have stated their donation amounts, it would be interesting to see what they're all pitching in. For example, that Old Spice dude said he was kicking in $1000... which seems pretty bogus when it's coming out of Old Spice's marketing budget. And last I saw, the biggest amount received was 100,000 which is crazy, but then you realise that Martha Stewart has a net worth upwards of $650 million, and (if that's her chipping the most money in) that's the equivalent to me throwing like eleven dollars in. Good chance she gave less and called it a charitable write-off.

Great idea loganu. Have you seen stated amounts for many of the people on this map? It's easy for us to add and scale by that as another option if we have the data.

Very cool, I wanted to build one myself. How long did it take to compile the dataset?

Thanks chairmankaga! We compiled it over the past week. Probably took between 10-20 hours to get all the connections, then grab images and videos for each person. More information on building with Kumu is available here: http://help.kumu.io

If you're looking for other example to help spark some creativity, check out our explore page: https://kumu.io/explore

This is super cool

hah - pretty cool!

Thanks ASquare!

This is so AWESOME!!!

Great graphic!

Thanks Kelly!

Pretty sure Kermit doing the challenge naked is my favorite: https://kumu.io/jeff/celebrity-ice-bucket-challenge#!/kermit...

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