Facebook Friendship

Perhaps the most important information on Facebook is the social connections between its members. One of the interns soc. networks - Paul Butler, on the basis of data from 10 million users, analyzed their geographical attachment and the place of residence of their friends. The result was such an entertaining map of links.



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He collected the data thanks to Apache Hive , and processed it using GNU R.

You can learn more about how straight lines were replaced, points of cities were removed from the map, and the author’s personal comments can be read here.