David Brooks Audience Graph • Social Signal

The top 10 neighbors for David Brooks span a narrow similarity band — from John Harwood at 0.98 down to Bari Weiss at 0.97 — with no single neighbor pulling significantly ahead of the rest. That compressed range is the defining structural fact here.

The subcategory mix across the top 10 is predominantly journalists: John Harwood (0.98), Robert Costa (0.98), David Frum (0.98), Peter Baker (0.97), and Bari Weiss (0.97) all carry the Journalists subcategory, matching Brooks's own. The remaining five positions go to authors — Michael Beschloss (0.98), Thomas L. Friedman (0.98), and Max Boot (0.97) — plus one politician, Tim Miller (0.97), and one professional, Scott Gottlieb, MD (0.97). The authors subcategory is the only meaningful cross-kind presence, and it sits at the same score tier as the journalists, suggesting no real separation between the two groups in audience terms.

The overall shape is a tight, homogeneous cluster of political commentary and analysis figures — journalists and author-commentators whose audiences are functionally indistinguishable from one another at this resolution.

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{ "handle": "nytdavidbrooks", "title": "David Brooks", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Journalists", "resolved": "nytdavidbrooks", "k": 10, "shape": "flat", "filter": null, "results": [ { "handle": "johnjharwood", "title": "John Harwood", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Journalists", "similarity": 0.9786, "drivers": [ "A02", "A01", "G01", "J01", "J02" ] }, { "handle": "beschlossdc", "title": "Michael Beschloss", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Authors", "similarity": 0.9768, "drivers": [ "A02", "A01", "G01", "J01", "J02" ] }, { "handle": "tomfriedman", "title": "Thomas L. Friedman", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Authors", "similarity": 0.9755, "drivers": [ "A02", "A01", "G01", "J02", "J01" ] }, { "handle": "costareports", "title": "Robert Costa", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Journalists", "similarity": 0.9754, "drivers": [ "A02", "G01", "A01", "G03", "J01" ] }, { "handle": "davidfrum", "title": "David Frum", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Journalists", "similarity": 0.9754, "drivers": [ "A02", "G01", "A01", "J01", "J02" ] }, { "handle": "timodc", "title": "Tim Miller", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Politicians", "similarity": 0.9745, "drivers": [ "A02", "G01", "A01", "G03", "J01" ] }, { "handle": "maxboot", "title": "Max Boot", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Authors", "similarity": 0.9741, "drivers": [ "A02", "A01", "G01", "J01", "J02" ] }, { "handle": "peterbakernyt", "title": "Peter Baker", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Journalists", "similarity": 0.9721, "drivers": [ "A02", "G01", "A01", "J01", "G03" ] }, { "handle": "scottgottliebmd", "title": "Scott Gottlieb, MD", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Professionals", "similarity": 0.9717, "drivers": [ "A02", "A01", "G01", "J01", "G03" ] }, { "handle": "bariweiss", "title": "Bari Weiss", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Journalists", "similarity": 0.9714, "drivers": [ "A02", "A01", "G01", "J02", "J01" ] } ] }

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David Brooks

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