NPR: Kevin Bacon https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=142647495 Kevin Bacon en Copyright 2024 NPR - For Personal Use Only Story API Shim 1.2.24 Wed, 27 Aug 2025 15:15:50 -0400 https://media.npr.org/images/podcasts/primary/npr_generic_image_300.jpg?s=200 NPR: Kevin Bacon https://www.npr.org/tags/142647495/kevin-bacon The Big Idea Behind Big Data As we find our way in a world shaped by Big Data, it's not the reams of information we gather but the networks they illuminate that's the newest addition to science's index of things, says Adam Frank. Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:02:00 -0500 https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2017/11/17/564671867/the-big-idea-behind-big-data https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2017/11/17/564671867/the-big-idea-behind-big-data

As we find our way in a world shaped by Big Data, it's not the reams of information we gather but the networks they illuminate that's the newest addition to science's index of things, says Adam Frank.

]]> Adam Frank '4.74 Degrees Of Kevin Bacon' Just Doesn't Sound As Good As 6 Facebook and researchers from the University of Milan calculate that on average it takes 4.74 "hops" to connect one Facebook user to another. But how can you play "4.74 Degrees of Kevin Bacon?" Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:40:00 -0500 https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/11/22/142646265/4-74-degrees-of-kevin-bacon-just-doesnt-sound-as-good-as-6 https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/11/22/142646265/4-74-degrees-of-kevin-bacon-just-doesnt-sound-as-good-as-6

Facebook and researchers from the University of Milan calculate that on average it takes 4.74 "hops" to connect one Facebook user to another. But how can you play "4.74 Degrees of Kevin Bacon?"

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