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Data-mining 10,000 Facebook status updates to graph breakup patterns
- gaius 16y agoIt's been said that the credit card companies have such good data on spending patterns that they can predict major life events, such as weddings and divorces. Anyway, I called Amex and they wouldn't tell me mine...
- rgarcia 16y agooriginal post: http://mathiasmikkelsen.com/2010/10/amazing-facts-about-facebook-and-breakups/ http://mathiasmikkelsen.com/2010/10/amazing-facts-about-face... although still no y-axis :(
- chopsueyar 16y agoThis is quite US-centric.
- jpeterson 16y agoThe world is US-centric.
- thamer 16y agoFacebook isn’t. From http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics : “About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States”
- steven_h 16y agoBut it isn't the US vs the World, its the US vs other individual countries. Which other countries make up 30% of Facebook's population?
- jdrock 16y agoI'm curious to see if this guy will get a letter from Facebook's legal department, like Pete Warden did.
- aw3c2 16y agoThis means 10000 status updates that mentioned a break-up. I did not guess that at first and was surprised how many of 10000 random updates could have been breakups...
- shaddi 16y agoProbably looked at relationship status changes. I'd personally be interested in seeing the opposite -- i.e., peaks in people starting relationships, as well as the inter-arrival periods of relationships.
- scrrr 16y agoHm. Any idea why people break up so often before Christmas?
- smiler 16y agoCollege kids rushing into relationships at the start of term and then breaking up at Christmas when they go home for holidays?
- jcdreads 16y ago"I'm thinking about breaking up anyway, and I don't feel like spending a bunch of money on a Christmas gift."
- thibaut_barrere 16y agoJust a guess: because it reminds you that another year just passed ? If you don't like your current situation, then it put you into the perspective of your whole life being wasted.
- jplewicke 16y agoBased on their election widget and access to demographic information, Facebook probably could put together scarily accurate, realtime election results.
- topherjaynes 16y ago10,000 statuses over the course of year is not a significant percentage. Did he just pool his friends status's?