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Romantic Partnerships and the Dispersion of Social Ties: A Network Analysis of Relationship Status on Facebook — mentioned by liuhenry

Tue, 16 Sep 2014 21:17:42 GMT

From the linked paper [1], it looks like the scores are calculated based on a concept of "dispersion", which is how closely a particular individual in your network is connected to each of the separate clusters of people you know. Each of the clusters in the graph represents a "social foci", such as co-workers, high school classmates, college classmates, etc. The dispersion score calculates how well someone you know is connected to these multiple disjoint clusters of people in your life, and tries to show that the person with the highest score is most likely to be your romantic partner. This…

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Romantic Partnerships and the Dispersion of Social Ties: A Network Analysis of Relationship Status on Facebook — HN submission

Tue, 19 Nov 2013 08:17:01 GMT

Recognize romantic partner using FB network [Oct, 2013]

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Romantic Partnerships and the Dispersion of Social Ties: A Network Analysis of Relationship Status on Facebook — HN submission

Tue, 29 Oct 2013 11:16:08 GMT

A Network Analysis of Relationship Status on Facebook

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