o00o Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 This is the social graph of facebook. Its pretty awesome and kind of scary at the same time. The lines show who is friend with who. To my relief, what I saw was roughly an outline of the world. Next I erased the dots and plotted lines between the points. After a few minutes of rendering, a big white blob appeared in the center of the map. Some of the outer edges of the blob vaguely resembled the continents, but it was clear that I had too much data to get interesting results just by drawing lines. I thought that making the lines semi-transparent would do the trick, but I quickly realized that my graphing environment couldn’t handle enough shades of color for it to work the way I wanted.Instead I found a way to simulate the effect I wanted. I defined weights for each pair of cities as a function of the Euclidean distance between them and the number of friends between them. Then I plotted lines between the pairs by weight, so that pairs of cities with the most friendships between them were drawn on top of the others. I used a color ramp from black to blue to white, with each line’s color depending on its weight. I also transformed some of the lines to wrap around the image, rather than spanning more than halfway around the world. here you can read some more background information how it was created: http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-friendships-make-visually-stunning-map-2010-12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 everyone in china uses QQ. and brazil, xanga? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
o00o Posted December 14, 2010 Author Share Posted December 14, 2010 everyone in china uses QQ. and brazil, xanga? there are also pretty big holes in Africa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Member Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 and soviet russia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
o00o Posted December 14, 2010 Author Share Posted December 14, 2010 its kind of interesting to compare it to this even so its a bit dated: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Beefuncle Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 everyone in china uses QQ. and brazil, xanga? They use orkut in brazil, facebook too but not as often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
o00o Posted December 14, 2010 Author Share Posted December 14, 2010 its pretty distorted in the upper part so Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beariksson Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 they use v kontakte in russia http://vkontakte.ru/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Braintree Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 Canadians don't like facebook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ruiagnelo Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 wow, it is like a redefined world map Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chassis Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 and in soviet russia Book faces you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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brian trageskin Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 jesus christ, scandinavia totally looks like a cock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 so does florida, in fairness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sirch Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 2012! 2012!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chassis Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 NEWSFLASH: USA IS ELVIS EATING A COCK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baph Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 Oh, god, the "facebook login" searchers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sirch Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 yar, the King eats cock! (in hell) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 Canadians don't like facebook. que? I'm surprised that there's so much activity in South Korea, they're all on Cyworld. Although actually come to think of it I have seen quite a few of my Korean friends join facebook as well recently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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