How does SocialMediaData determine vertex size

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How does SocialMediaData determine the size of graph vertices, e.g. on what does the vertex size depend in, say, a Facebook friend network graph?

halmir · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-03 13:11:06Z

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It's scaled by vertex degree, i.e., the number of mutual friends.

answered Apr 3 '13 at 13:11

halmir

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$\begingroup$ Perhaps you could add a reference to the source of this assertion? $\endgroup$ – Sjoerd C. de Vries Apr 3 '13 at 14:08
$\begingroup$ It's confirmed by Wolfram research. $\endgroup$ – halmir Apr 3 '13 at 14:20
$\begingroup$ Where? Personal communication or documentation center or...? $\endgroup$ – Sjoerd C. de Vries Apr 3 '13 at 14:23
$\begingroup$ Personal communication (tech support) .. :) $\endgroup$ – halmir Apr 3 '13 at 16:56
$\begingroup$ Oh yeah, I forgot about that... $\endgroup$ – Sjoerd C. de Vries Apr 3 '13 at 20:03

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