Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Tracking Facebook Friendships Create a Stunning Global Map

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Paul Butler, a Facebook engineering intern, transformed social data into a stunningly beautiful visual that outlines the geographical borders of Facebook friendships.

It worked like this--by using a random sample of ten million pairs of Facebook friends, Butler plotted both their locations and their connection to one another on a graph. By repeating that step with each member of his sample, Butler found that the resulting image formed the outline of a world map, with the most marked areas forming where major cities are located.

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Tracking Facebook Friendships Creates a Stunning Global Map (Source: Time Magazine)

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