Woo. Woo. Alex Hern reporting for The Guardian: In at least one previous…
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Facebook logs calls and text messages
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What Facebook and Google know about you
Facebook and Google (among other companies) know a lot about you through the…
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Facebook still allowed race exclusion for housing advertisers
Last year, ProPublica revealed that Facebook allowed housing advertisers to exclude races in…
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Prophet for forecasting with a lot of data
Facebook released Prophet, which is a procedure to quickly forecast with time series…
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Data Selfie: Chrome extension logs what Facebook learns about you
Facebook logs data about you and how you use their application. I know…
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U.S. culture through TV show geography
Map who “likes” television shows on Facebook, by ZIP code, and you get…
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Breaking the algorithmic black box
The general public kind of knows about data privacy issues. But not really.…
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Sans human, Facebook’s Trending Topics algorithm faired poorly
Last week, Facebook announced that it was making the Trending Topics section more…
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Demographics of laughter on the web
There are a handful of ways to express laughter online, and it appears…
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Trust engineers
The most recent episode of RadioLab is on social experimentation and social networks.…
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Inadvertent algorithmic cruelty
If you logged into Facebook the past couple of weeks, you saw your…
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Detecting your face
Sterling Crispin reverse engineered facial recognition algorithms and produced masks that only kind…
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NBA basketball fans by ZIP code
After the popularity of The Upshot’s baseball fandom map, it’s no surprise the…
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Detailed map of baseball fandom
For the past couple of sports seasons, Facebook mapped the most liked team…
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Facebook debunks Princeton study
Researchers at Princeton released a study that said that Facebook was on the…
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Prediction of sexual orientation through Facebook friends
Carter Jernigan and Behram F.T. Mistree found that sexual orientation of an individual…
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A thorough Facebook analysis by Stephen Wolfram
Stephen Wolfram analyzed the Facebook world, based on anonymized data from the Wolfram|Alpha…
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March Madness fan map
Along the same lines as their NFL fan maps, Facebook had a closer…
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NFL fans on Facebook, based on likes
As the Super Bowl draws near, Facebook took a look at football fandom…
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Mitt Romney losing likes on Facebook, in real-time
If you go to the Facebook page for Mitt Romney, note the number…
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How viral photos spread on Facebook
Number of likes and shares for a Facebook post are just simple aggregates…
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How people are connected on Facebook, by country
As part of the Stories initiative that Facebook launched yesterday, an interactive map…
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Analyze your Facebook profile with Wolfram|Alpha
Feeding off the momentum from Stephen Wolfram’s personal analytics earlier this year, Wolfram|Alpha…
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Twitter vs. Facebook: What people share
Edwin Chen, a data scientist at Twitter, took an in-depth look at what…
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Profile of the Facebook Data Science Team
MIT Technology Review profiles the Facebook Data Science Team, described as a gathering…
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Good use of pie charts
This Wall Street Journal graphic shows who’s selling (or sold) a percentage of…
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The Facebook Offering: How It Compares
The New York Times does it again with this succinct look at tech…
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Your personal networks visualized as microbiological cells in Biologic
Data exists in digital form, on our computers and spreadsheets, but the exciting…
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What Facebook knows about you
Facebook logs and saves a lot of data about you and what you…
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Four degrees of separation
Testing the idea of six degrees of separation, first proposed by Frigyes Karinthy,…
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