07:04 <o0x1eef> The #ruby song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhTvifGShw4

13:26 <rapha> hey all

13:31 <rapha> do we have something in ruby for easily creating a visual network diagram? specifically, i'd like to plot distance and strength of interpersonal relationships. what i have in mind is a semicolon-separated values file where each person gets 1 line. 1st field is their own name, all subsequent fields are comma-separated lists of names: "in the last 3 months, who has been most important to you", "who is

13:31 <rapha> grounded in reality the most", "whose behaviour annoys me the most", "who would i like to spend time with the most", "who do i want to be in touch with the least"

13:34 <rapha> if my brother and i both put one another into the "who would i like to spend time with the most" field, the algorithm should give us a smaller distance and place arrow heads on both sides of the line connecting us. but if we also both put each other in the "whose behaviour annoys me the most" field, the line connecting the two arrow heads should be a little thinner ... and so on, and so forth

13:37 <rapha> my question was initially about how to do the actual plotting. but either minimagick or chunkyy_png should do fine for that. the more i think about it, the less confident i feel about the algorithmical side of this :(

13:38 <rapha> so, maybe not a ruby question per se, but i'd love any and all thoughts about it :)

13:47 <adam12> rapha: Not sure if it would work for this but I'd probably just use something like d2lang or mermaid.

14:04 <rapha> d2 looks like it's easily generated

14:07 <rapha> and what about the algorithmic side, adam12? do you think this is feasible? i'm thinking a first pass that collects all the names in the first field and then does a sanity check on the subsequent fields to make sure no names are mentioned there which don't occur in the first field. beyond that it feels like something that lends itself well to OOP: have a Node class with 1 object per person and an

14:07 <rapha> Edge class with 1 object per each 2 persons...?

14:29 <adam12> rapha: Havven't given it much thought, tbh.

14:32 <rapha> No worries. It's not urgent or anything. Just a perosnal interest project.