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In our earlier years, we tend to date and marry others who are around our age. However, this is not true for everyone. Variation kicks in when you look at the later years, consider multiple marriages, divorce, separation, and opposite-sex versus same-sex relationships. This chart breaks it all down.
Posted by in age, Data Underload, marriage, relationships
Through pop culture, it sometimes seems like it’s common for there to be a wide age difference between spouses. How common are the age gaps, really? These are the age differences through the lens of the 2022 five-year American Community Survey.
Posted by in age, Data Underload, marriage, relationships
Recently published in Nature, research by Chetty, R., Jackson, M.O., Kuchler, T. et al. suggests that economic connectedness, or friendships between rich and poor, could improve economic mobility. The researchers used Facebook connection data from 70.3 million users, along with demographic and income data. NYT’s The Upshot explains the relationships with a collection of maps and charts.
You can find an anonymized, aggregated version of the data through the Social Capital Atlas. Also, I am very much into this socially-focused use of social media data.
Tags: economics, facebook, income, poverty, relationships
Posted by in economics, Facebook, income, poverty, relationships, Statistical Visualization
Everyone’s story is a little different. Alyssa Fowers tracked her long-distance relationship in the context of the temperature between two locations and the travel to and from.
Tags: relationships, temperature
Posted by in relationships, Self-surveillance, temperature
Speaking of relationship timelines, Chris Lewis used texting history with his girlfriend after the first swipe on Bumble as the backdrop of their own story. A few 21k messages later, they’re engaged and live together. [Thanks, Chris]
Tags: relationships, texting
Posted by in relationships, Self-surveillance, texting
Everyone's relationship timeline is a little different. This animation plays out real-life paths to marriage. Read More
Posted by in Data Underload, marriage, relationships
We know that people are marrying later in life, but that's not the only shift. The whole relationship timeline is stretching. Read More
Posted by in Data Underload, marriage, relationships
How do couples meet now and how has it changed over the years? Watch the rankings play out over six decades. Read More
Posted by in Data Underload, dating, relationships
"So how'd you two meet?" There's always a story, but the general ways people meet are usually similar. Here are the most common. Read More
Posted by in Data Underload, dating, relationships
Rosenfeld, et al. from Stanford University ran a survey in 2009 for a study on How Couples Meet and Stay Together. Dan Kopf and Youyou Zhou for Quartz used this dataset to estimate the probability that you will break up with your partner, given a few bits of information about your current relationship.
The Stanford data page says a 2017 release is on the way. I’m curious how, if anything, has changed in relationships between 2009 and now.
Tags: breakup, probability, relationships
Posted by in breakup, probability, relationships, statistics