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Old 03-06-2011, 08:54 PM   #66 (permalink)
Jetée
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I don't think the map is terribly useful, and its not all that accurate unless the author continously monitors nation internet usage on a per-month basis of actual average data use (he didn't; it's just based on faceless, baseless connections that are interlinked and to be seen through any random Facebook account).

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Originally Posted by dlish View Post
Facebook lights up the world. The map showing the 'friendships' on facebook that create a map of the world. quite amazing really.

created and charted by Paul Butler. (If you'd like to view it TRUE High-Res, the file is 3.8 MB, and is readily DL-able via his facebook splash page.)

author's comments:
Visualizing data is like photography. Instead of starting with a blank canvas, you manipulate the lens used to present the data from a certain angle.

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.   click to show 


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