Faces of Facebook: View yourself among 1.2 billion Facebook users on visual timeline (and other visualisation tools)
By Hemant Verma On Tuesday, October 1, 2013
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black and white dots
(like noise on analog TV known as static), each signifying a Facebook
profile that pops up when your mouse hovers over it. Created by
technologist Natalia Rojas,
the site that has managed to display profiles, in chronological order
of sign ups, promises not to violate any Facebook privacy rules. And
yes, the first dot, is that of Mark Zuckerberg.
Here's why the project was born: "Because there we
are, all mixed up: large families, women wearing burkas, many Leo
Messis, people supporting same-sex marriages or r4bia, Chihuahuas,
Indian Gods, tourists pushing the leaning Tower of Pisa, selfies,
newborns, Ferraris, studio black and white portraits, a lot of weddings
but zero divorces, ID photos, faces framed in hearts, best friends,
manga characters, politic logos, deep looks, love messages, eyes, memes,
smiles, sweet grandparents and some not-yet-censured pictures."
Find yourself: The site also lets you 'connect' with
your own Facebook account to let you find your face # and see where your
face appears in the vast density of profiles. Connecting your Facebook
account to the app also highlights your friends on the map as larger
white dots, letting you see: Who joined first, and who joined last.
Miami-based Rojas has developed the project using HTML5, Javascript, CSS, jQuery, EaselJS, Ajax, FB API, PHP and MySQL.
More amazing visualisation tools like Faces of Facebook:
This is not the first time a developer has tried to visually showcase social profiles and connections on the Internet.
LinkedIn's In Maps
LinkedIn for instance has a map that lets you see your connections called In Maps (http://inmaps.linkedinlabs.com/).
The tool displays coloured codes that represent different affiliations
or groups from your professional career, such as your previous employer,
college classmates, or industries you’ve worked in. You can use the
mouse scroll to zoom, click on a connection's name to get more
information and label the color-coded clusters to describe your
relationships.
Vizify's Connections for Twitter
Then there is Vizify Connections (http://vizify.com/connections),
that lets you view a visualisation of your Twitter connections. Within
seconds, it builds an animated and interactive infographic of your
network by creating concentric circles to show how often you've tweeted
at/with a person. It categorises people based on their interactions with
you. The two broad categories are:
The Rock: We interact all the time
The Pal: We interact with some regularity
MIT's Immersion for Gmail, Yahoo Mail and MS Exchange
Another interesting tool to view a people-centric history of your email life is MIT's Immersion (https://immersion.media.mit.edu).
Immersion uses your email metadata including: 'the From, To, Cc and
Timestamp fields of the emails in the account you are signing in with'
to show your top collaborators.
Foursquare's Time Machine
Foursquare offers a service called Time Machine (https://foursquare.com/timemachine)
that crunches the numbers of all your check-ins to display them on a
colourful animated geographic map. It also gives stats on Top Categories
of places you visit and a total number of checkins.
Wolfram Alpha's Facebook Report
You can also generate a 'Facebook report' (http://www.wolframalpha.com/facebook/)
using search engine Wolfram Alpha that has a few visualisations
including one that lets you see the structure of your network on the
site. However, I couldn't zoom in to my connections using the map and
won't recommend this one.
About Hemant Verma
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