Big Data magical: Facebook paints a picture of legalizing gay marriage

United States June 26 night, the United States anti-gay marriage "Federal Marriage Protection Act" was sentenced to unconstitutional. Then, Facebook's consumer content manager, Alex Walker and data editor Robert D ' Onofrio, posted a Facebook news broadcast to show Facebook users ' response to the event.

The U.S. population is 315 million, and Facebook has 167 million American users. According to the article, 70% of Facebook's American users have a gay, bisexual friend who has been out of the closet on Facebook. Facebook users have been 600 times times more likely to mention the term "unconstitutional" after the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Federal Marriage Protection Act (unconstitutional) was unconstitutional. In the morning between six and eight, the court decided that the key words were mentioned more than 1.5 million, two hours later, the number doubled, after the verdict, more than 4 million people talked about the topic.

Celebrities such as actress Ben Afflect, Lenardo Dicapcio, pop singer and Lady Gaga are vocal on Facebook, supporting the legalization of their peers ' marriages.

Facebook, based on its user data, deals with a map that shows the extent to which American users support their peer marriages in shades of color.

Facebook recently launched an emoticon, which allows users to choose among dozens of of emoticons in the update status, including a "wonderful" expression.

Facebook is drawing the following figures, based on all the state-related updates to the court at a time before the Wednesday court session. The darker the yellow, the higher the proportion of the expression using "awesome". Hollywood and Silicon Valley, California, are the states with the highest levels of peer marriage support.

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