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6 Gorgeous Facebook Visualizations

Source: mashable

Aug 21, 2009

Summary

Like every complex network, Facebook offers unlimited possibilities of visual representation of the various connections between its users. We’ve chosen six beautiful visualizations that will awaken the (visual) geek within you.

You don’t have to stop at merely watching. Some of the visualizations on the list come with tools which you can use to create beautiful Facebook visualizations of your own with very little effort. Enjoy!

Know of a beautiful Facebook visualization? Let us know in the comments!

Nexus

This Facebook add-on lets you easily create 3D graphical representations of the connections in your Facebook network. You can also view graphs for other users, fine tune the settings to create various graphs, zoom and pan your graph, and choose between a light and a dark theme. The results can be stunning, especially for users with a lot of Facebook friends.

Project Palantir

This project visualizes all the data Facebook receives, on a global scale. See the Facebook infoverse as it flies around the planet! Unfortunately, it’s not freely available for everyone to

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