Starting with myself as a node in a network, I’ve mapped my Facebook, Gmail and LinkedIn. Some of my friends, family and colleagues are connected to multiple services, while others are connected to only one or two. Honestly this was a bit of a tedious process, first exporting the data from each service and then reworking the data into an Excel file as per Kumu.io’s importing instructions. As I have only begun to use Twitter, I was unable to obtain any data to map connections, nor did I include things such as phone contacts, internal work contacts, or connections through WhatsApp.
Update – 11/5/20
I’m curious if this wouldn’t be better to use something like P5.js to create a visualization. It might be a bit of work to get similar functionality, but it would at least be fully open source. I found this WordPress plugin which could work, although it does have some issues in that this blog is currently hosted on the University’s servers, meaning I don’t have access to the file directory. Unfortunately, that means I can’t upload the Javascript file for hosting, so it’s a no-go.
An alternative might be to use this Gutenberg Block instead. I would still need permission to include it, which wasn’t a problem when I had Elementor added. The difficulty would be that I’d have to use Gutenberg, which I’m not too keen on as I know in my previous job we did have trouble getting it to react as expected. There was a great post created by ThemeIsle on their tests between Gutenberg and Elementor and, while it’s posted on Elementor’s website, it does echo some of what we experienced, as well. But, if I want to use P5.js, I guess this is the way forward for now.