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The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Magazines
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The top 10 neighbors span news publishers, podcasts, research organizations, apparel, and humor accounts — no single subcategory dominates, and the spread is wide enough that no one cluster defines the shape.

Similarity here measures how closely two entities' audience compositions resemble each other. Inside Higher Ed leads at 0.99, the strongest pull in the set and the one neighbor that shares an obvious thematic lane. After that, the scores descend gradually rather than dropping sharply: National Science Foundation at 0.94, AP Stylebook at 0.90, Times Higher Education at 0.90, and NPR Science Desk at 0.89. The subcategory breakdown across the top 10 runs: News Publishers (3 — Inside Higher Ed, AP Stylebook, Times Higher Education), Podcasts and Radio (2 — NPR Science Desk, Up First), Research Organizations (1 — NSF), Apparel General (1 — Urban Outfitters at 0.88), Websites (1 — AP Oddities at 0.88), Humor Memes and Satire (1 — Ladies And Gentlemen, The Weekend at 0.88), and Journalists (1 — Audie Cornish at 0.87). The center entity's own subcategory — Magazines — has no representative in the top 10; the nearest fellow magazine, Science Magazine, sits just outside at position 28 in the broader dataset. The cross-kind breadth here is the structural finding: news publishers and public-radio properties form the core, but the audience shape is loose enough to pull in an apparel brand and humor accounts at nearly the same score.

The broad shape reflects an audience that isn't tightly bound to any single media format or subject niche — it overlaps widely across informed-generalist content of many kinds.

Nearest neighbors by audience shape

Cosine similarity over Persona Live audience composition.
"Entities whose overall audience profile most closely matches this one — people who follow one tend to follow the other."

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Attention graph /similar sample results  (free):
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