Sublime

I had thought that they might represent something like acquaintances (people you are familiar with, many of whom you probably work with, at around 500)

layers seemed to be defined by the frequencies with which people contacted their friends, as well as how emotionally close they felt themselves to be to each of the people.

I don’t love numbers. I am a huge, huge fan of data, but I don’t love it. It has its limits. I love data only when it helps me to understand the reality behind the numbers, i.e., people’s lives. In my research, I have needed the data to test my hypotheses, but the hypotheses themselves often emerged from talking to, listening to, and observing peop

Quand je suis né, en 1948, les femmes donnaient naissance en moyenne à 5 enfants chacune. Après 1965, le nombre a commencé à baisser comme jamais auparavant. Ces cinquante dernières années, il a chuté jusqu’à atteindre la moyenne mondiale incroyablement basse d’un peu moins de 2,5.

‘Your scheme is a good deal more difficult to carry out than the Pythagorean community, though. You have not only got the old Adam in yourself against you, but you have got all those descendants of the original Adam who form the society around you.

located two Facebook datasets, one small and one large (and, no, they didn’t get either of them from Cambridge Analytica . . . both are publicly available), and downloaded a large sample of Twitter traffic (if you know how to do this, it is easy to do and, because Twitter is publicly accessible, it is perfectly legal).