Comments on: One year look @ Facebook Growth #Canada

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:16:35 +0000

Thanks Scott, the data was handy:

http://alexfrakking.com/2009/02/10/is-canada-facebook-saturated/

By: windsor

windsor — Tue, 13 May 2008 03:16:49 +0000

This is a little off too. I grew up in Windsor Ontario and it has no city network represented on facebook. Most people I know from there ended up signing up as Detroit MI, as it is geographically the nearest city…

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:00:35 +0000

Hey Lister,

I have had a few emails asking me this same question. So lets look at what I did to make this.

I use a couple of products to make the visuals like this.

Google Spreadsheets> to hold and manage my data online and always available to me

iWork 08 (MAC)> import data and create the nice looking chart …lots of options for exporting data. Save the chart as a .pdf

Illustrator CS3> import pdf from iWork 08 adding additional text and legend information. Export using the “export for web” option ..which exports web maximized graphics.

I am sure there might be an easier way to do this right from iWork … however this route gave me the most control over the graphic.

Hope this helps. I also recommend checking out Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds. I just go this book on WEdnesday but it is a real good book to help you with maximizing the effectiveness of information you have to present.

Cheers
Scott

By: Lister Majolis

Lister Majolis — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:01:58 +0000

what did you use to great the pretty graphs?

L.M.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:40:13 +0000

Members: 28,828
Friends: 8
Type: College
Location: Waterloo, ON

Waterloo is school network vs a regional network. It may be operating as a regional network however technically it is not a regional network. I only looked at the regional networks that I had data for from the 2007 networks.

Are you part of this network ? I am wondering if you can be part of this network and part of a regional network.

thanks for pointing it out.

cheers
scott

By: Arieh Singer

Arieh Singer — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:23:33 +0000

Fantastic stats Scott – thank’s for sharing!

By: Latrell

Latrell — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:29:35 +0000

Are those Kitchener numbers just Kitchener or Kitchener + Waterloo? Because if you’re going by “Network”, there are separate Kitchener and Waterloo networks, and you could kinda consolidate the two…

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:29:34 +0000

@ michael dundas

I gathered these numbers by doing network searches for the cities that I had looked at previously. Facebook is quite protective about specific information.

By searching the network I was able to grab the network size and compare to the numbers I had before.

Scientific? …perhaps not …..best I could do with the tools at my disposal?….definitely.
cheers
scott

By: Chris Clarke

Chris Clarke — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:59:57 +0000

Ah, my bad. Thanks Scott.

By: Micahel Dundas

Micahel Dundas — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:36:51 +0000

Great numbers. I am curious how you were actually able to capture and verify these numbers? Are you just querying facebook itself?
-mike.