An intern with Facebook’s data infrastructure engineering team recently created a brilliant map of “real human relationships.” The purpose of the map was to visually respresent how geography and political borders affected where people lived relative to their friends. The map was created from about ten million pairs of friends from Apache Hive, Facebook’s data warehouse. Data was combined with each user’s current city and summed the number of friends between each pair of cities. The GIS was implemented when the latitude and longitude were merged with each city.
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I hope to see more from Facebook in the future. With so much data about the social and personal, these maps will provide an array of useful GIS unlike anything we have ever seen before.
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This is incredible. Especially how the connections literally draw the boundaries of most of the continents.. Very interesting what is going on in Asia, there is hardly anything there. I wonder if it is because that data is not available because of their government.