By Facebook data analysis you can roughly know who your lover is

ByBrandon Warren

About 1.15 billion people worldwide Facebook, about 22 million people in JapanNumber of active users per monthIt is one of the largest SNS sites in the world. The data gathered from mass registered Facebook users is enough to be able to know personal information and a network analyst specialist develops a method that can distinguish a user or lover who likes a user with quite high accuracy did.

(PDF file) 1310.6753v1.pdf
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1310.6753v1.pdf

Facebook Data Scientists Know Who Your Lover Is - Rebecca J. Rosen - The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/facebook-data-scientists-know-who-your-lover-is/280928/

Lars Backstrom, Facebook's engineering manager and Professor Jon Kleinberg of Cornell University's computer science department,Embeddedness (embedded)"We used a method named" Who is the most intimate among friends? " "Embeddedness" is a method based on the theory that a person with the most common friend is a person who has a deep relationship with the user. From Facebook users randomly select 1.3 million users over the age of 20 and over who have 50 to 2000 friends on their friends list and analyze each data using "embeddedness" to pick the closest person As a result, 24.7% of those were her users and spouses.

ByMeer

However, two experts are looking for higher accuracy and using another analysis method "DispersionWe will develop. "Embeddedness" which was a method of analyzing only common friends, "dispersion" is a method of analyzing a person who is sharing more networks from people registered in a friend list, that is, a lover And spouses and other special people should share not only friends, colleagues and boss such as classmates of people, families and high school in the workplace, so that not only friends but friends It is to analyze a wide range of friendship relationships.

When the person figured out using this method examines the probability of being a user or her spouse, it is about 50% of "embeddedness" about 50%, and when the profile is limited to users of "married" , The correct rate of "dispersion" rose to 60%. In addition, it is said that there was a tendency that couples sharing a wide range of human relations continue to have good relations afterwards.

ByFederico Casares

In order to derive the correct answer rate of the analysis method, the subject that was covered in this survey is "Account publishing lover or spouse", but Facebook can freely browse and analyze the data of the account, so the profile Even if you do not make it private, you know that you can easily analyze relationships by using methods developed by Professor Kleinberg and Mr. Backstrom.