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Desiring God

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The top 10 neighbors for Desiring God form a tightly packed cluster of fellow Spiritual Leaders — seven of the ten share that exact subcategory — with scores spanning only 0.98 to 0.95, a narrow band that defines the flat shape.

Similarity here measures how closely two entities' audiences resemble each other in composition. John Piper leads at 0.98, followed by Louie Giglio at 0.97 and Beth Moore at 0.97. David Platt (0.96) and Pastor Mark Driscoll (0.96) round out the top five, all Spiritual Leaders. The remaining three Spiritual Leaders in the top 10 — Matt Chandler at 0.96, Craig Groeschel at 0.95, and Lysa TerKeurst at 0.95 — hold the pattern. The two departures from that subcategory are C. S. Lewis (0.96), classified as a Fact Quote and Lyric Account, and The Gospel Coalition (0.95), a Blog — both sitting comfortably within the same narrow score range rather than standing apart from it. No other subcategory breaks through in the top 10; the audience shape is almost entirely defined by its own kind.

The flat, same-kind structure signals an audience that moves cohesively within a specific faith-content ecosystem, with little pull toward adjacent categories.

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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