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- Link by Link - Facebook Has a Happiness Index Drawn From Posts - NYTimes.com 7:49pm Oct 13|37 Comments
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Facebook Data Team We've updated our United States Gross National Happiness graph with a new set of positive and negative words from LIWC (www.liwc.net). Thanksgiving is still a happy day, though not as happy relative to Christmas. We continually improve our models to make them better indicators of the things we measure, so you may notice that the graph changes a bit from day to day.
Facebook Data Team At Facebook, Data plays a significant role in the Design process, helping us to iterate towards the best solution for 250 Million users.
We recently launched stream search (the ability to search content on Facebook) and a new search interface to 100% of Facebook users. Today, I want to share the story behind its design and the iterative process that is reflective of many projects at Facebook...
Exploring and analyzing data isn’t the responsibility of one team here at Facebook; it’s everyone’s responsibility. “Mo...
Facebook Data Team Geographic dispersion of Facebook users from 0 - 250M.
Watch how Facebook has grown to 250 million users around the world. We couldn’t have done it without all of you.
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As we've all read by now, Google's chief economist Hal Varian commented in January that the next sexy job in the next 10 years would be statisticians. Obviously, I whole-heartedly agree. Heck, I'd go a step further and say they're sexy now - mentally and physically.
Facebook Data Team One out of every 50 new facebook users is over 65
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What St. Patrick’s day is all about [http://www.facebook.com/lexicon/index.ph
This past week the Economist published a piece entitled Primates On Facebook that described some research done by the Facebook Data Team...
