Facebook Friend Wheel – awesome data visualization

Facebook is pretty silly, but somehow, I keep getting people adding me as friends, and I add them as friends if I vaguely know them. I occasionally change my status message, and ignore all the zombie, etc. requests, occasionally watch a video that someone has posted to my “wall”. meh.

But this FriendWheel app is pretty damn cool.

It’s funny to see different groups of people clumped in certain areas. Former coworkers from certain jobs, people from certain groups, projects you’ve worked on, etc., the stray guy who’s name is familiar, but you don’t really know who he is, and doesn’t have any friends in common, etc. 🙂

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4 Responses to Facebook Friend Wheel – awesome data visualization

  1. Daniel says:

    The friend wheel is indeed a really cool visualization, one that inspired me to get off my butt and build a facebook app of my own. It’s a graph visualization which allows you to see which of your friends know each other. Still very proto but check it out:

    http://danielmclaren.net/node/77

  2. Daniel says:

    The friend wheel is indeed a really cool visualization, one that inspired me to get off my butt and build a facebook app of my own. It’s a graph visualization which allows you to see which of your friends know each other. Still very proto but check it out:

    http://danielmclaren.net/node/77

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  3. mark says:

    this is just a sociometric mapping software app…plenty more on web….its cool though

    m

  4. Seb says:

    Hi,

    Netvizz, a Facebook application, creates a .gdf file describing either your personal network or the groups you are a member of, and let you import it into GUESS and Gephi.

    Annoucement: http://thepoliticsofsystems.net/2010/03/22/netvizz-facebook-to-gephi/
    App: http://apps.facebook.com/netvizz/
    Tutorial: http://blog.sociomantic.com/2010/05/using-netvizz-gephi-to-analyze-a-facebook-network/

    cheers

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