Wednesday, November 03, 2010

Facebook Breakups Visualized


David McCandless and his team scanned through 10,000 status updates to do some trend analysis on when people announce breakups on Facebook.

Watch his full TED talk on the beauty of data visualizations here.

3 comments:

Elizabeth said...

love that -- am being butchered now on my own blog, and I wonder why no one ever comments on yours given your often incendiary views (that I generally agree with!).

Douglas Vicenzi said...

Not sure why people are mean on your blog. I get loser anons who leave lame comments, too. Don't sweat it.

The trend is on our favor. I live in NYC, vote in CT. We are all Blue States. The rural Red States are thinking in reverse because they have bleak, austere lives.

I live in the richest city, raised in the richest State. I vote Democrat. My taxes end up going to pave roads in rural upstate NY and build their libraries and they get to bitch about income redistribution. They live off NYC.

Hate to tell these monochromatic rubes that their best buildings are their police station and fire station, most of them dream of state jobs with pensions, and their kids best option is the military or a State school.

GOP has them in a trance.

Elizabeth said...

I might have to quote you on that.