I get to do a lot of interesting work with the Facebook Data Team. This past week has been quite a lot of fun as I’ve gotten to combine my two loves of social data and story telling by generating a series of graphics for a story about Facebook in the New York Times in the Business section of last Sunday’s paper as well as served up online. Graphics were generated using Processing.

This past week the Economist published a piece entitled Primates On Facebook that described some research done by the Facebook Data Team. Since there have been a number of questions throughout the monkeysphere, we thought we would take the opportunity to describe our approach, the data, and our analysis.

Read more about our findings (and become a fan) at the Facebook Data Page
and my coworker Cameron’s blog at Overstated.net.