Tuesday 28 December 2010

Visualising Friendships – Facebook

‘When the data is the social graph of 500 million people, there are a lot of lenses through which you can view it. One that piqued my curiosity was the locality of friendship. I was interested in seeing how geography and political borders affected where people lived relative to their friends. I wanted a visualization that would show which cities had a lot of friendships between them.’ (Paul Butler, intern on Facebook’s data infrastructure team)

The result? The result:

Visualizing Friendships - The World According to Facebook

Thanks to Political Calculations for posting it.

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