As the Super Bowl draws near, Facebook took a look at football fandom…
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NFL fans on Facebook, based on likes
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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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Facebook connections displayed in physical space
For Facebook’s F8 developer conference, creative agency Obscura Digital delivered the Connections installation.…
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Where people don’t use Facebook
Remember the Facebook connections map from a while back? It showed digital friendships…
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Map of scientific collaboration between researchers
In the spirit of the well-circulated Facebook friendship map by Paul Butler, research…
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Facebook status updates: young people are self-centered and old ramble
The Facebook Data Team had a quantitative look at status updates by age…
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Filling in the black holes of the Facebook friendship map
While it was fun looking at the worldwide connections on Facebook, I thought…
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Facebook worldwide friendships mapped
As we all know, people all over the world use Facebook to stay…
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When people break up, according to Facebook updates
For his book The Visual Miscellaneum, David McCandless, along with Lee Byron, had…
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Evolution of Facebook privacy policies
There’s been a lot of hullabaloo about Facebook’s newly installed privacy policies. It…
