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Visualizing Friendships by Paul Butler on Monday, December 13, 2010 at 8:54pm

"... 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 ..." _ more

asked Dec 14 '10 at 19:27

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You can't imagine FaceBooks datercenters.....

I think it has 5TBs links and they now own a group of fibres to Germany? IDK 100% on that.

I think they have 5000= nodes and I can't think of how many yottabytes they have of hard drives, as over 30 mill pics get uploaded every day just from the UK alone.

answered Dec 14 '10 at 19:47

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