Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Visualizing Facebook Friends: A map is worth a thousand lines!

R, the computing language of choice for number crunchers, got a big boost recently when it turned out that the now famous image of facebook’s global friendly connections was in fact drawn with R. Paul Butler, the intern at facebook, who created the graphic, explains in a blog why he chose R for the task.

http://paulbutler.org/archives/visualizing-facebook-friends/

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