# Visualising your online community – how would you do it?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/visualising-your-online-community-how-would-you-do-it/90667
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [6월 25, 2018, 4:49오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/visualising-your-online-community-how-would-you-do-it/90667 "2018-06-25T04:49:00Z")
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### Author: ![meglio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/meglio/32/71444_2.png) [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)
#### Post date: [6월 25, 2018, 4:49오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/visualising-your-online-community-how-would-you-do-it/90667/1 "2018-06-25T04:49:00Z")

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Did anyone ever thought of visualising their community? On a map, or as a graph, or as a Voronoi diagram, or as a diagram of any other type, or … ?

If so, may you share your thoughts pls and elaborate? How do you want it? How would you use it?

For instance, I don’t find anything like insightful or readable:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/a/9/a9bb632a6d1c826e0294c46ba072db3c39be245f.jpg)

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [6월 25, 2018, 8:13오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/visualising-your-online-community-how-would-you-do-it/90667/2 "2018-06-25T08:13:19Z")

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For what purpose? What problem does this solve, what insight does this deliver?

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### Author: ![Openmind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/openmind/32/88333_2.png) [@Openmind](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Openmind)
#### Post date: [7월 7, 2018, 5:34오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/visualising-your-online-community-how-would-you-do-it/90667/3 "2018-07-07T05:34:16Z")

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It might be a good idea to visualize the relationships and connections between the core members similar to the mapping the structure of any complex system such as the atoms and molecules in matter.

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### Author: ![Paul\_Vincent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/paul_vincent/32/63100_2.png) [@Paul\_Vincent](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Paul_Vincent)
#### Post date: [8월 9, 2018, 9:26오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/visualising-your-online-community-how-would-you-do-it/90667/4 "2018-08-09T09:26:40Z")

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Visualisations such as the branching tree used by Kialo _can_ be useful in tracking various lines of discourse within a topic, although visualisations also often exist for the sake of it. Using Kialo as an example again; their topology chart doesn’t really serve any purpose for me, aside from providing a vague idea of the direction in which the debate has been heading.

**Kialo Interactive Tree:**

 ![kialo_tree](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/5/0/5087cc2427e79bfe64c781f890acc97b03693617.png)

**Kialo Interactive Topology:**

 ![interact_topology](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/c/9/c99e95cf55a37644b0808bdb0886fc20a5ff3372.png)