Comments on: Facebook Friend Activity Seen Around the World

By: The Litmus | The Dapper Alchemist

The Litmus | The Dapper Alchemist — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:52:22 +0000

[...] Facebook around the world [Facebook via FlowingData] [...]

By: Visualizaci

Visualizaci — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:02:43 +0000

[...] de mis contactos en Facebook me sugirió este video. Leyendo un poco por aquí y por allá descubrí que el origen de esta visualización estaba en un hackathon [...]

By: Robert Morton

Robert Morton — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:36:04 +0000

Infosthetics has a similar post up that includes a link to a Google visualization like what you described: http://infosthetics.com/archiv.....ation.html

Here’s the Google viz: http://infosthetics.com/archiv.....eplex.html

By: The Litmus « The Dapper Alchemist

The Litmus « The Dapper Alchemist — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:26:39 +0000

[...] Facebook around the world [Facebook via FlowingData] [...]

By: Nathan Yau

Nathan Yau — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:44:04 +0000

I don’t think it’s the visualization itself why it’s getting so much attention – at least that’s not what first drew me in. It was the simple fact that it was made by engineers at Facebook during a Facebook event. Same goes for visualization by Google. When these big companies make something, people take notice.

It’s like when The New York Times gets a bunch of attention for an infographic that applies some new technique designed at the past InfoVis. Big names – big attention.

By: Robert Kosara

Robert Kosara — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:31:01 +0000

It’s kind of sad how people are getting excited about this. Tamara Munzner’s Internet backbone visualization from 1996 did pretty much the same thing, and without half a billion in startup funding.

The visualization is also not very informative: all we’re seeing is that there’s activity in the US and in Europe, and practically nowhere else. A map of those two places would have been a lot more useful (because it would be possible to tell where those dots are actually hovering) but of course less flashy and it would be harder to pretend that there were Facebook users around the world.

It’s a shame that most people only appreciate visualization when it’s pretty and flashy, and never realize that there are ways to show things visually that are actually useful.

By: Alex Kachayev

Alex Kachayev — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:01:04 +0000

Like in Twitter

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:17:32 +0000

Sergey talks about Google usage 1 minute into the video
http://www.ted.com/index.php/t.....oogle.html

By: jandot

jandot — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:20:34 +0000

The google thing… Could that be http://labs.google.com/papers/sawzall-20030814.gif ?