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Examining How Married Women Change (Or Keep) Their Last Names On Facebook

Justin Lafferty — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:12:24 +0000

Facebook recently wondered if younger married women were more apt to keep or change their last names after marriage (at least on Facebook). The company’s data science team found that women in their 20s were the most likely to keep their maiden names, while women in their 30s and 40s hyphenated their last names more often than others.

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Facebook Data Science Team: Michigan Popular In More U.S. Counties Than Other Final Four Teams

David Cohen — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:18:30 +0000

With the Final Four teams set for the 2013 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship, the Sports on Facebook page offered a look at counties in the U.S. that back Louisville, Michigan, Syracuse, and Wichita State.

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How The Equality Symbol Spread Through Facebook

Justin Lafferty — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:01:22 +0000

On March 26, several people all over Facebook changed their profile photos to red and light-shaded equality signs in support of the Human Rights Campaign and same-sex marriage. While Facebook couldn’t track specifically the numbers of those who changed their profile pictures to this image, the site’s data science team tracked how many users changed their profile photos that day — an increase of 120 percent.

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March Madness Infects Facebook Data Science Team

David Cohen — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:09:23 +0000

With the 2013 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship tournament set to tip off Tuesday, Michael Bailey of the Facebook Data Science Team filled out his brackets with information on Facebook likes in a note on the Sports on Facebook page.

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Facebook Data Science Team Slices Open The Pigskin, Analyzes NFL Fans

David Cohen — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:57:35 +0000

With Super Bowl XLVII set to kick off Sunday, the Facebook Data Science Team put National Football League fans on the social network under the microscope, finding that one in 10 U.S. Facebook users have declared their allegiances to NFL teams.

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Facebook: A Family Affair

David Cohen — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 15:59:13 +0000

If your children are in their early to mid-20s, don’t hold your breath waiting for Facebook friend requests from them. That was just one nugget of information from the Facebook Data Science Team, which analyzed posts on the social network that were anonymized and processed automatically by users who identified themselves as parents or children to get a better sense of how families interact with each other on Facebook.

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