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Dramatic Personae - Wedding Social Network

I found this interesting visualization, Dramatic Personae at a site I visit regularly, Visual Complexity.

What I enjoy about this visualization is the personal aspect. This isn’t some flashy, Java enabled, real-time, data visualization used for deep insight. Instead, this is a unique visualization created for a personal occassion to help a wedding party better know who they may run into during the event.

When Andrew Enright and his wife Heather Samples were married in 2006, they had a small wedding with a few groups of very tightly-knit friends and family. Wanting them to chat one another up easily, they made this graphic to help start conversations and allow, say, their college friends to enjoy Heather’s father’s friends without too much awkwardness.

They also wanted a program-like document, something that would tell the roles of each member of the wedding party. Therefore, Andrew and Heather are placed in the middle with the outer ring of the major players.

This is definitely a fantastic nostalgic visualization that is sure to bring back good memories. All sizes of the photo are available here

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