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Facebook Social Network Mapping Visualization

Facebook Social Network Mapping Visualization. By Lourdes Chang. Contents. Introduction Social Networks Facebook background Synthetic Data Application description Demo Related Work Future Work Conclusion. Introduction.

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Facebook Social Network Mapping Visualization

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  1. Facebook Social Network Mapping Visualization By Lourdes Chang

  2. Contents • Introduction • Social Networks • Facebook background • Synthetic Data • Application description • Demo • Related Work • Future Work • Conclusion

  3. Introduction • “A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world” (Lois Wyse) • “Show me your friends and I will show you your future” (John Kuebler)

  4. Social Networks • Classmates.com • Friendster • mySpace • LinkedIn • Twitter • Xanga • Facebook • Etc.

  5. Facebook • More than 400 million active users • Average user has 130 friends • About 70% of Facebook users are outside of the United States [1] “Statistics | Facebook”. http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics, 2010

  6. Facebook • Email address • Interests • Activities • Notes • Birthday • Photos/Videos • Education history • Relationship status • Events/Social gatherings • Religion • Groups that they belong to • Friend list • Hometown/Current location • Website

  7. Synthetic Data • Database • All cities in the United States • Longitude and latitude • Geocoder (Google Maps API) • Create test files • XML

  8. Synthetic Data

  9. Synthetic Data • Algorithm • Base • One person is the host “friend”, has x friends • His friends are known as friend[0], friend[1],….,friend[x] (base string) • Friends of friends • Select one friend, has y friends • Base string + [.] + [0,1,….,y]

  10. Synthetic Data

  11. Application description • Contains • Map with sidebar (Google Maps API) • Control buttons • Map interactions • Two graphs • Pie (Bluff library) • Bar (HTML-Graphs) • HyperTree (JavaScript Visualization Toolkit) • Tree interactions

  12. Demo

  13. Related Work • Vizster • Friendster • Facebook API • Too long • Permissions

  14. Future Work • Coupling and decoupling map and HyperTree • Calculate how many people fall under a certain range (radial) • Other information other than location

  15. Conclusion • No real data, no real conclusion • Universal web application • XML file

  16. References [1] “Statistics | Facebook”. http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics, 2010 [2] Sweeny, Charles. “List of Cities and Countries”. http://listofcitiesandcounties.com/, 2010 [3] Belmonte, Nicolas Garcia. “JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit - Interactive Data Visualizations for the Web” http://thejit.org/docs/files/Hypertree-js.html, 2010 [4] Mani, Venkat. “Google Map – Facebook Mashup!!!” http://thetechstig.com/?page_id=35, 2009 [5] Williams, Mike. “Google Map API Tutorial” http://econym.org.uk/gmap/, 2010 [6] “MarkerClusterer for V3”. http://google-maps-utility-library-v3.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/markerclusterer/docs/reference.html [7] Veness, Chris. “Calculate distance, bearing and more between Latitude/Longitude points”. http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html [8] Tentler, Gerd. “Gerry’s Script Library”. http://www.gerd-tentler.de/tools/ [9] Boyd, Danah. Heer, Jeffrey. “Vizster | Visualizing online social networks”. http://hci.stanford.edu/jheer/projects/vizster/, 2005 [10] Boyd, Danah, Ellison Nicole B. “Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship”. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html. 2007 [11] Facebook. http://www.facebook.com

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