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Very interesting article and data representation of how people are influenced by each other.

The Buddy System: How Medical Data Revealed Secret to Health and Happiness: “

A revolution in the science of social networks began with a stash of old papers found in a storeroom in Framingham, Massachusetts. They were the personal records of 5,124 male and female subjects from the Framingham Heart Study. Started in 1948, the ongoing project has revealed many of the risk factors associated with cardiovascular disease, including smoking and hypertension.