Facebook data says we are entering breakup season.... yes people can update their relationship status on Facebook (not on Goodwizz) and statistics show that now is a bad time... Come to Goodwizz then to quickly meet partners ;)
Facebook's dataset is fast becoming one of the premiere probes of human behavior. Using the site's statistics, we can double-check our intuitions about how people, in aggregate, behave.
And so it's with great sadness that I inform you that breakup season has begun, according to this graph from David McCandless, scraped from 10,000 status updates on the site. Right at the beginning of November, breakups start climbing, peaking a couple of weeks before Christmas.
Obviously, all sorts of caveats, selection biases, etc. But remember, this is just the beginning. Putting our social lives online means allowing our social lives to be quantified. Just look at all theanalysis the dating site OKCupid puts out about our relationship predilections.
According to an article by Matthias Mikkelsen http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/11/uh-oh-facebook-data-says-were-entering-breakup-season/65579/
Facebook's dataset is fast becoming one of the premiere probes of human behavior. Using the site's statistics, we can double-check our intuitions about how people, in aggregate, behave.
And so it's with great sadness that I inform you that breakup season has begun, according to this graph from David McCandless, scraped from 10,000 status updates on the site. Right at the beginning of November, breakups start climbing, peaking a couple of weeks before Christmas.
Obviously, all sorts of caveats, selection biases, etc. But remember, this is just the beginning. Putting our social lives online means allowing our social lives to be quantified. Just look at all theanalysis the dating site OKCupid puts out about our relationship predilections.
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