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• 18 Jan

Facebook intern Paul Butler recently created a map that illustrates the world through a random sampling of 10 million pairs of Facebook friendship connections. (Read about his methodology here and see his high-res image here.) While the outlines of continents and countries on the map are made up solely by friendship connections, the final result amazingly models a typical world map.…