Visualizing 13 million BlueSky users

An exploration into creating a visualization of 13 million BlueSky users, leveraging force-directed graph layout techniques and UMAP for dimensionality reduction. The process involved aggregating follow and unfollow events using WebSocket on BlueSky's relay service, followed by parallelized computation on a home server to handle the vast data. The project culminated in an interactive map to explore the network and highlighted the importance of interactivity for meaningful large-scale visualizations.