Using R to Visualize Facebook Friends

December 21, 2010 10 Comments

You may recall seeing this great visualization from Facebook last week on the links between friends.  Well the creator of that graphic has blogged about how he did it using R and some amazingly simple processing.  R is one of those tools that isn’t used in our space enough (really, you use Excel for analysis?) and if this doesn’t open your eyes to its great potential, your priorities are in the wrong place.

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ESRI Moves Their UC Blog to Facebook

December 4, 2008 19 Comments

As I said on Twitter, this is probably a good move for ESRI and building a community around the User Conference. Facebook is a closed ecosystem (you have to sign up to participate) but given Facebook’s traction online, it is the right move. So if you want to keep up on the ESRI UC news, sign up for Facebook and join the Official ESRI UC group.

The ESRI Crowd Rolls on Facebook

The ESRI Crowd Rolls on Facebook

Update: As some have pointed out on Twitter, not every company allows access to Facebook so the community might be missing key people.

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whereyougonnabe is beta

April 15, 2008 4 Comments

Peter Batty announced on his blog that whereyougonnabe has entered beta. If you have a Facebook profile and want to give it a spin, you can do so right here. If the word whereyougonnabe makes no sense to you whatsoever, just head over to Peter’s blog and check out some of the videos on how to use it.

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