1945-geo-analysis-facebook

[ashkerina]

Geo Analysis For Facebook Insight

[adampash]

Headline:

• %username has a friend %farthest_distance miles away
• %farthest_distance miles is nothing to %farthest_user
• %username made a connection in %furthest_city

Body:

Assuming we've met some threshold (say, a %farthest_distance > 100 miles?) Randomly begin with:

• You don't need to be close to stay close.
• It's nice to reach out to friends who aren't nearby.
• Out of sight doesn't necessarily mean out of mind.

Then append:

• People as near as %closest_place and as far as %farthest_place connected with %username this %period.

[ginatrapani]

I believe @cdmoyer meant to post this here:

"
Latest version of the code on the thinkup.com branch is here: https://github.com/cdmoyer/ThinkUp/tree/ashkerina-geo-analysis

The primary issue now, is that we need to modify the facebook crawler to pull in the actual location graph entity, store that in tu_places, and then create a tu_places_users table. Then we'll actually have the lat/lon for the user locations and be able to calculate distance and create the desired insight.
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