World Map Visualizing Friendships on Facebook
Paul Butler, an enginnering intern at Facebook, created a really cool world map visualizing friendships on 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.
Scott Beale
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