Implement a list-of-lists graph data structure.
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In my last post, I defined Right Time Experiences as experiences that are derived by analyzing and combining contextual data from mobile (such as location, motion, prior usage behaviors) with data from your social graph and with data from the cloud that may be accessible via an API (e.g. weather, available parking in a area, restaurant table availability).
Credit: National Snow and Ice Data CenterThe graph above shows daily Arctic sea ice extent as of March 22, 2011, along with daily ice extents for 2006, which had the previous lowest maximum extent, and 2007, the year with the lowest minimum extent in September.
Graph Search capitalizes on Facebook's massive bank of data about its users, or "social graph, " to seek out friends, or other users who have made their information public, using information about them.
Facebook owns this data and information graph.
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This is a graph of how much the revised data pushed up the 12 month moving average.
Because graphs are extremely flexible data structures, a graph database can emulate any other kind of database.
Facebook's new Graph Search, which also uses data from your social network contacts to answer questions.
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Graph Search delves the wealth of data already inside Facebook, pulled from 1 billion profiles, 24 billion photos and 1 trillion connections.
He would not be beholden to Facebook to constitute his social graph and to make use of his data for the privilege.
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Now, you might be tempted to think that since each figure here is in a bar, sitting next to other bars and pointed at the top, you are looking at a bar graph, designed to help you compare data.
With its own tab in Salesforce.com, it builds a social graph of your social and physical networks augmented with public data from Zoominfo and other sources.
Look at the enclosed graph, from the current issue of Forbes, which uses data from consultancy ZS Associates and the World Health Organization.
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The hockey stick graph at the center of this dispute was based heavily upon data taken from trees on the Yamal Peninsula in Siberia.
Apple took notice and repurposed the messages to be used as data points for internal use, evidenced by a graph charting customer complaints about the ill-fated Internet service, MobileMe.
But, thanks to the web, you can now create your own collection of ideas and data without all the pain of manipulating data into a plain, old chart or bar graph form.
With products like "Timeline" and "Open Graph, " Zuckerberg appears determined to erode privacy and package users as data products that add value to his corporation.
The interest graph combines the click stream, the semantic stream, and the product engagement data to illuminate the path to sales.
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Everything else that it does, including Graph Search and other features to engage users is essentially to make its user data more organized to increase the efficacy of its ads.
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The challenge that many companies have when attempting to create a data driven culture is that the glamorous part, the chart and graph at the end of the process, is really about 10 percent or less of the work.
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Knowledge Graph will show search results in a new way, integrated with maps and other data.
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Graph Search makes it ridiculously easy for recruiters and employers to make use of that data to create better targeted ads, build stronger talent communities and reach people that want to work for them.
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The same data may be used through SQL, NoSQL, MapReduce, or other forms such as a graph analytics.
There are still plenty of questions about Graph Search, both about whether Facebook users will balk at the potential for searches by companies and lock down their data with privacy settings or refuse to post information that could be useful for employers.
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