Comments on: Thoughts on Wolfram|Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2012/09/05/thoughts-on-wolframalpha-personal-analytics-for-facebook/ Reflections on the Web and Web 2.0 Sat, 18 May 2013 20:05:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Sheila MacNeill (@sheilmcn) http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2012/09/05/thoughts-on-wolframalpha-personal-analytics-for-facebook/#comment-122109 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 13:17:09 +0000 http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/?p=11739#comment-122109 Thanks Brian (and Tony) – didn’t know about this.

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]]> By: Tony Hirst http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2012/09/05/thoughts-on-wolframalpha-personal-analytics-for-facebook/#comment-122098 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 09:21:12 +0000 http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/?p=11739#comment-122098 Hi Brian – thanks for all the plugs..;-)

For folk wanting to play with raw Facebook data, here are a couple of hacks:
- visualise/analyse how your friends connect on Facebook http://blog.ouseful.info/2010/04/16/getting-started-with-gephi-network-visualisation-app-my-facebook-network-part-i/
- visualise/analyse what your friends Like on facebook http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/01/04/social-interest-positioning-visualising-facebook-friends-likes/

It’s worth pointing out that for the social network analysis, Facebook will only give you data relating to how your friends connect to each other, whereas Twitter lets you (but not a grwoing list of other social networks – http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/aug/23/twitter-tumblr-neutron-bomb ) grab a list of IDs of the all the friends/followers of any public Twitter account. (Actually, Facebook also lets you test if two specified individuals follow each other, but API rate limits limit how many connections you can test… LinkedIn InMaps show a map of how your friends on LinkedIn connect, but I don’t think you can get hold of the actual friendship connection data?

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