PieSpy (v0.1)

Creates social networking diagrams based on irc activity.

PieSpy is an IRC bot that monitors a set of IRC channels. It uses a simple set of heuristics to infer relationships between pairs of users. These inferrences allow PieSpy to build a mathematical model of a social network for any channel. These social networks can be drawn and used to create animations of evolving social networks.

The configuration file for this plugin is system/PieSpy/PieSpyConfig.xml

Defines parameters specific to the social network chart image file, such as dimensions, colors, directory, etc.

• width - width, in pixels, that you want the chart to be
• height - height, in pixels, that you want the chart to be
• directory - local directory to store the images
• createCurrent - Create a channel-current.png file
• createArchive - Create an archive image file
• createRestorePoints - Serialize the graph object for later retrieval when bot is restarted. Otherwise all data is lost between bot instances.
• color - Define colors of the various chart elements.

        <image>
                <width>800</width>
                <height>600</height>
                <directory>/tmp/</directory>
                <createCurrent>true</createCurrent>
                <createArchive>true</createArchive>
                <createRestorePoints>false</createRestorePoints>
                <color>
                        <background>#ffffff</background>
                        <channel>#eeeeff</channel>
                        <label>#000000</label>
                        <title>#9999cc</title>
                        <node>#ffff00</node>
                        <edge>#6666ff</edge>
                        <border>#666666</border>
                </color>
        </image>


    

A list of nicks to ignore when generating the graphs, e.g. the bot itlsef and/or other bots in the channels.

        <ignoreSet>
                <ignore>PieSpy</ignore>
                <ignore>rizbot</ignore>
                <ignore>zibrot</ignore>
        </ignoreSet>


    

The settings in the advanced section of the configuration should not be edited unless you really know what you're doing. I don't know even know what they can affect.

        <advanced>
                <temporalDecayAmount>0.02</temporalDecayAmount>
                <springEmbedderIterations>1000</springEmbedderIterations>
                <k>2</k>
                <c>0.01</c>
                <maxRepulsiveForceDistance>6</maxRepulsiveForceDistance>
                <maxNodeMovement>0.5</maxNodeMovement>
                <minDiagramSize>10</minDiagramSize>
                <borderSize>50</borderSize>
                <nodeRadius>5</nodeRadius>
                <edgeThreshold>0</edgeThreshold>
                <showEdges>true</showEdges>
        </advanced>

    

Command: ignore
Description: Tells the bot to ignore a nick and remove it from future graphs.
Auth Level: trusted
Where to give command: private message
Example(s):

• ignore rizzo

Alias for ignore.

Command: draw
Description: Tells the bot to immediately create a graph image file and send it to you via DCC.
Auth Level: trusted
Where to give command: private message
Example(s):

• draw