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Looks like they've drilled facebook a bit too hard. Any chance Christian Rudder will open source this so we can run with our own app tokens?
Shame - I was curious how this would compare to facebook's internal friend ranking (discoverable through methods such as this: http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2013/11/10/script-shows-faceb...)
But after that, I have a few people I don't care at all about in my top 10 (I'm thinking of just removing 3-4 of them now that I see that they're still my friends), and a couple of my closest friends have a score of 1.
Each of the clusters in the graph represents a "social foci", such as co-workers, high school classmates, college classmates, etc.
The dispersion score calculates how well someone you know is connected to these multiple disjoint clusters of people in your life, and tries to show that the person with the highest score is most likely to be your romantic partner.
This probably doesn't work so well in trying to identify friends, since it's likely that a close friend from college may not know any of your friends from work, or your high school classmates.
Most of the next 20 people or so (scores >30k) are people we invited to our wedding that we found out later friended others that attended our wedding, or are people part of multiple groups (tech people that I game with). I'm not sure I'd call these people more central to my life just because they're more social though, after a point.
Number 2 is a friend who's a movie producer, ie a professional friendmaker. He's got a zillion friends.
After that it's kind of random.
Three of the women I've actually dated are literally at the bottom of the list. Makes sense, several times I've dated completely out of my circles. Funny to see though.
What's weird is that one of those women's friends, who I otherwise don't know at all, is near the top. Well above the woman I actually dated. We have no other friends in common. Interesting.
1) look at all links to mutual friends; categorize friends based on their connectedness to different clusters (ie, "school friends", "work friends", etc.) 2) look for friends who are mutual friends with people from multiple clusters (people who know both your family and your coworkers -- "bridge friends") 3) look especially for friends who are friends with multiple people from category 2 (people who know most of your bridge friends)
The assumption seems to be that people who are peripheral friends will only know others from one circle. People who are somewhat close will know others from multiple circles. And people who are the closest to you will know a lot of your multi-circle friends.
(FWIW: this put my wife well ahead of anyone else, but the rest of the ordering seems barely better than random. A guy I played video games with a couple times back in 1998 is #2 by a large margin; the guy from the same video game who my wife and I hang out with several times a week and who co-runs some major projects with us scores less than 1/4 of that. My dad clocks in just behind the new youth pastor at my church who I've known for all of two weeks.)
This probably happens because if your partner has a large number of connections to the other important people in your life, your partner (/person with most connections to all the various groups) then absorbs all of those people, leaving only people with no connection to those groups to take up the runner up spots.
A more interesting question would be to ask if it has any predictive power.
Though, also, FWIW, I can't get it to run (getting an error already reported in another comment).
I do see four distinct clumpings, with very little overlap: my large, extended family, the people I went to high school with, people I knew in college, and the small group of coworkers I have now. Which is kind of interesting, but also makes total sense, since those are completely disjoint sets of people.
Interesting use of the term "mathematically" to cover the likely difference between the model and reality.
And the only purpose in participating, as far as I can tell, would be to understand how close their model can come -- by definition, I almost certainly know who my important relations are.
After that, unfortunately, this ranking is nonsense. #2 is someone I met once and have never communicated with since. We have only one friend in common. Totally bizarre. My good friends are scattered between ranks 5 and 50, amidst a sea of near-strangers.
A relationship like this is what I want more than anything else in life, so I hope you don't mind me derailing the conversation a little bit to ask: to what do you credit with getting along so well? My parents also had an extraordinary relationship (before my mother passed away), and I'm always interested in figuring out what exactly it is that makes some couples so happy together.
None of that is a reproducible formula for a perfect relationship, and honestly my personal track record wasn't great before finding my wife. Really the only advice I have is to find someone that's not just a significant other but a very close friend -- a lot of people say that, but not many truly have it -- and, when you find someone like that, put her (or him) before absolutely everything.
#1 is a close friend
#2 is some random that I should probably not be friends on Facebook with added a week or two back. Acquaintance at best
#3 is someone I've not spoke to in years
#4 is the SO
#5 is another person I've not spoke to in years who is friends with #3 if that means anything to anyone scouring comments for bugs
#7-11 are randoms that I've spoken to a couple of times "keep in touch!"
#12 is in my reality #2 spot after the SO, very close friend we speak pretty much daily and all that
My current girlfriend, who is not active on FB at all (she's more of a lurker), is basically last, with only 1 assimilation point.
I only have a little over 100 friends, though.
So, somewhere between reality and fear-mongering.
It is quite good at grouping different sets of friends visually (ie, high school friends, university friends, friends from different hobbies and sports, work friends, etc).
My only guess is that people are adding/removing friends which changes things around, but that seems to be quite a difference.
Edit: For what it's worth, the listing seems very accurate for the top 10, which is comprised of my best friends, my sister, a couple old girlfriends. Things get a little weaker after that.
Example:
Rank,Score
1,0.81
2,0.541
3,0.540
..
40,0.538
Increasing the value of row 40 by just 1% will cause it to go from rank 40 to rank 2.
Edit: Improved formatting.
Needless to say, it is a mess and doesn't support people who have lived in different places all that well LOL.
Same for someone else? Waited quite a long time (comments here said it takes long) and then opened the console.
