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What you can learn about you from Wolfram Alpha's Facebook Report

3/13/2013

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48 countries, 321 cities
Figure 1. "Wolfram|Alpha, the world's first and only computational knowledge engine, uses its expert-level knowledge and algorithms to answer questions, generate reports, and do analysis across thousands of domains. And the newest domain is your own life and social network, as seen through your Facebook!"
Wolfram Alpha's Facebook Report is now available to anyone with a Facebook account. Of course I had to go ahead and give it a try, wondering what I could learn from it. Quite a lot actually. Apparently I have friends in no less than 48 countries, residing in no less than 321 cities (see figure 1.). How do you mean the world is a village?
PictureFigure 2. Friend Network topography
Figure 2. See that blurb on the left? That's my friend network. 

They roughly divide into 3-4 categories which I have to say is pretty accurate. 

You can generate views that show you your male or female friends, those younger or older than you, and from your home town or the place where you live.

That big blue blob on the left side are connections made through or via social networks like Second Life, Facebook, Twitter or Empire Avenue, most of which I have yet to meet in person. What remains are colleagues, friends and family. It's just that easy to meet new people in the digital space these days, and to me this graph is evidence of that.

As you can see from Figure 3. you will also get to see in your Facebook report, should you decide to generate one for yourself, your average post/like ratio and your average comment/ post ratio.


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Figure 3. Averages
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Of those that have posted a relationship status, you get to see how those are divided (Figure 4.).

There are actually quite a few facts being made available in the report, such as the age distribution or who your friends are who have the most friends. Perhaps too much to tell in a single article.

One of the more interesting ones is a section dedicated to telling you whom the "social insiders", "social outsiders", "top social connectors", "social neighbours" and "social gateways" are in your network.  


This article can however merely give you an idea of what's in store for you should you decide to run the report. If you do, what stood out most for you?



5 Comments
Andreas Wiedow link
3/12/2013 08:43:26 pm

Where can I see which kind of 'social animal' I am ?

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Tim Gorree link
3/12/2013 08:58:00 pm

Hi Andreas! The contrast on the links is poor I noticed also, here is the link:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/facebook/

The link is at 'Run The Report', but I agree it might be hard to spot!

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Joan Stewart link
3/12/2013 09:40:43 pm

Thanks for the useful insight Tim, what I enjoyed most is the age groups from oldest to youngest, then the number of people in each country.

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Tim Gorree link
3/13/2013 03:18:34 am

Happy that you like it Joan! Just the sort of metrics you'd expect to find on facebook itself but don't, isn't it?

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Ulrich H. Kiefer link
3/14/2013 10:39:15 am

Good graphics and also a good topic. What most of the people might disturb to some extent is the too narrow format. We use - outside USA - Verdana 12, 1,5 sized as a standard in printable portable document format (PDF).

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