Photo Gallery Analyzing Facebook User Data
This graphic offers depictions of the social networks of various Facebook users, with different clusters of friends given different colors. Sometimes the clusters overlap or are very close to each other. Other times, they are completely removed -- when, for example, a user has friends in far-flung geographical locations or from very diverse activities and interests.
The data analyzed by Wolfram Research also shows migration paterns. This can be determined by the place a user was born and where they currently live. The largest arrows point toward the United States, but there is also apparently an influx from the US to Germany. According to Wolfram's data, many immigrants to the US come, unsurprisingly, from India and China.
Relationship status according to age: young Facebook users are more often single. In the mid-to-late twenties, the number of married users rapidly increases.
Facebook conversation topics, divided by gender (red = female, blue = male) and plotted against age: Older men talk more about politics, while the under-20s talk the most about social media. One topic that becomes more popular with age regardless of gender: the weather.
Word clouds: The image shows a small sample of the terms used by the software to identify conversations about certain topics. Someone who uses the word "movie" is probably talking about films, while a user who says "sick" or "hospital" is presumably talking about health.
