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Visualisation of the communities in my Facebook personal network

The latest Facebook API doesn't allow you to download your personal network, so I wrote this python script that crawls the site and first retrieves my friend list, and then from that gets the mutual friends of each person on my friend list. I opened the CSV file in Gephi, and followed this tutorial to create a layout and detect communities in my network. This is what the result looks like:

My Facebook Personal Network: alt text

I didn't realize that my two schools were so well connected! My college community was also really interesting for all the sub-communities I found in it - distinct communities of my batchmates (which could be further divided into girl and boy communities), juniors and seniors.

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