A Facebook intern has used data collected from ten million pairs of Facebook friends to create a stunning new map of the world. Lost at E Minor
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SOME interns have too much time.
One of them, on Facebook’s data infrastructure engineering team, used data collected from ten million pairs of Facebook friends to create a stunning new map of the world.
As he noted: ‘After a few minutes of rendering, the new plot appeared, and I was a bit taken aback by what I saw.
"The blob had turned into a surprisingly detailed map of the world.
"Not only were continents visible, certain international borders were apparent as well’.
Indeed.
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