One more of these network explorations. I tried a bit of data mining on the Puppy Kerfuffle Timeline. The idea was to pick out from entries people talking about other people or being talked about together. So John Scalzi talking about Vox Day or vice versa. A few stray non-people (or groups of people) got in the mix as well. Also Santa Claus?
The graph is undirected i.e. it doesn’t distinguish between talking and being talked about. Also, this is very much NOT about allegiances or other connections — a line joining a group is more likely to be a critic than an ally.
Camestros Felapton 
14 responses to “Debarkle Conversations”
Thank you for my dots!
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I understand all the entries except Santa.
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He’s the Santa Claus of poorly cleaned data
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I suppose having FTL reindeer puts him firmly in the SFF category.
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Not to mention Harlan Ellison wrote a story about him once.
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So did Jim Hines.
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As did David Nickle and Karl Schroeder. Admittedly a rather less pleasant Santa Claus.
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Castalia House is missing an e at the end.
Also, can anybody refresh my memory who John Eno is. I first assumed it was the musician, but he is Brian Eno.
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John Eno was disqualified from Best Pro Artist for reason I can’t recall
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Eno had no qualifying work in the applicable year.
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Thanks. I had completely forgotten about that.
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I am unsurprised that Teddy named his “publishing company” after an incident where relentless sexual harassment led to a woman’s death.
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I think it was a step removed from the Greek Myth and is a reference to the country in Herman Hesse’s Glass Bead Game
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Pff. Aristotle! never read Hesse.
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