Friendship & networks

Friendship Lab

See how encounters, attention and available time shape friendships and social networks over time.

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What you can explore

Network evolution and individual inspection
Time budgets, remote work and social opportunities
Scenario comparisons, checkpoints and exports

Guided and advanced workspaces in English, Arabic, German, French and Spanish.

Try your first experiment

Choose a time-budget or meeting-opportunity question. Both scenarios share a 104-week warm-up before the comparison begins.
Start with the 1,000-person or company quick model, set a seed and horizon, then run the paired comparison. Use 10,000 entities when you want a larger synthetic population.
Inspect the matching charts, values table and an individual journey. Save or share the recipe; open Advanced for maps, detailed parameters and the original model controls.

How to read the results

A closed synthetic cohort and an exploratory friendship model. Network isolation is not a measurement of loneliness, and the model does not predict an individual’s real relationships.

These are exploratory models using synthetic populations. Their results illustrate assumptions and scenarios; they are not calibrated forecasts.