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# Project Palantir: Facebook Interactions Visualization
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/project-palantir-facebook-interactions-visualization/
- Published: 2008-11-23T22:09:59.000Z
- Updated: 2016-06-14T12:07:36.000Z
- Description: The goal of Facebook's Project Palantir is to "visualize all the data that Facebook gets". Each Facebook action is geo-located…
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:15

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The goal of Facebook's Project Palantir is to "visualize all the data that Facebook gets". Each Facebook action is geo-located on a 3D globe, becomes a particle that floats off the surface of the Earth, and then disappears. Facebook interactions (e.g. friend requests, pokes, wall posts) are shown by 3D splines or a trailing mesh connecting 2 locations, with each color representing a different sort of interaction. Watch the [demonstration movie](http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=37403547074&ref=nf) at Facebook, or the high-quality YouTube version [below](http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/11/project%5Fpalantir%5Ffacebook%5Finteraction%5Fvisualization.html?ref=protein.xyz#extended). Similar globe-based visualizations include: [Google's Information Display at GooglePlex](http://infosthetics.com/archives/2006/06/ambient%5Fdisplay%5Fgoogleplex.html?ref=protein.xyz), [3D Live Stats](http://infosthetics.com/archives/2007/02/3d%5Fglobe%5Flive%5Fstats.html?ref=protein.xyz), the still impressive [InfoMagnet](http://infosthetics.com/archives/2006/04/3d%5Fdata%5Fworld%5Fglobe%5Fgeographical%5Fcartogram.html?ref=protein.xyz), [Google Proximity between Cities](http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/04/google%5Fproximity%5Fbetween%5Fcities.html?ref=protein.xyz). One more Facebook visualization is the [Lexus social network graph](http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/03/facebook%5Fsocial%5Fnetwork%5Fgraph.html?ref=protein.xyz), and there is a considerable collection at [Many Eyes](http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/visualizations?q=facebook&ref=protein.xyz). In the meantime, lets see whether the recent addition of [Lee Byron](http://www.leebyron.com/who/?ref=protein.xyz) as an Interactive Information Designer at Facebook, and known from the stacked [Stream Graph](http://www.leebyron.com/else/streamgraph/?ref=protein.xyz) of LastFM listening behaviors, will bring forward more Facebook visualizations! Thnkx Nick. Via [TechCrunch](http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/22/facebooks-project-palantir-beautiful-visualization-of-people-connecting/?ref=protein.xyz).

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