Visualizing Dating Data

December 02, 2010

Visualizing Dating Data

What would a census based on online dating profiles reveal? Love the maps Luke Dubois created for his soon to be exhibited "A More Perfect Union" project -- born of post-breakup openness to any kind of mate, willingness to sign up for every major data site, and nerdy info computation curiousity. Text frequency visualized on U.S. maps uncover amusing geographic variations in characteristics -- how shades of shyness vary across states and how some towns should be renamed "Skeptical", "Hammered", "Compulsive", "Strapless"...

Dec 2, 2010 10:39:26 AM | Psychogeographies, Visualization

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