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Facebook Social Network Mapping Visualization

The document describes a social network mapping and visualization application for Facebook. It uses synthetic user data and connections generated from a database of US cities. The application visualizes the social network with interactive maps and graphs using APIs from Google Maps and JavaScript libraries. It is intended to be a universal web application for exploring social networks without access to real user data from Facebook.

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Facebook Social Network Mapping Visualization

The document describes a social network mapping and visualization application for Facebook. It uses synthetic user data and connections generated from a database of US cities. The application visualizes the social network with interactive maps and graphs using APIs from Google Maps and JavaScript libraries. It is intended to be a universal web application for exploring social networks without access to real user data from Facebook.

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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

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)

Social Networks

Classmates.com Friendster mySpace LinkedIn Twitter Xanga Facebook Etc.

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

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

Synthetic Data

Database

All cities in the United States Longitude and latitude

Geocoder (Google Maps API)

Create test files

XML

Synthetic Data

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) Select one friend, has y friends Base string + [.] + [0,1,.,y]

Friends of friends

Synthetic Data

Application description

Contains

Map with sidebar (Google Maps API)


Control buttons Map interactions Pie (Bluff library) Bar (HTML-Graphs) Tree interactions

Two graphs

HyperTree (JavaScript Visualization Toolkit)

Demo

Related Work

Vizster

Friendster

Facebook API

Too long Permissions

Future Work

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

Conclusion

No real data, no real conclusion Universal web application

XML file

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. Gerrys 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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