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The top 10 neighbors in David Platt's similarity graph are overwhelmingly fellow Spiritual Leaders, with two Fact Quote and Lyric Accounts and one Author rounding out a tightly composed cluster. Similarity here measures how closely two entities' audiences resemble each other in composition; a score near 1.0 indicates near-identical audience shape.
Seven of the ten neighbors share Platt's own subcategory. John Piper (0.98) and Louie Giglio (0.97) sit at the top, followed closely by Beth Moore (0.97) and Desiring God (0.96). Lysa TerKeurst (0.95), Craig Groeschel (0.94), and Pastor Mark Driscoll (0.94) complete the Spiritual Leaders contingent. The two departures from that subcategory are quote-and-lyric accounts — C. S. Lewis (0.95) and A W Tozer (0.95) — both figures whose audiences evidently overlap with the same crowd, alongside Thom Rainer (0.95) as the sole Author in the set. The band is narrow: the gap between first and tenth place is just 0.035, which is the defining feature of a flat shape — no single neighbor dominates, and no neighbor is a clear outlier.
The picture that emerges is an audience defined almost entirely by its own kind, with no cross-category surprises in the top 10.
