You know what would be handy? A place where say a half-billion people could record the activity of their daily lives, their highs and lows, where lots of other people could see it. That way, interested observers might be able to detect patterns in human behavior. Oh, wait, we have it. It’s Facebook.
David McCandless, a bespectacled British designer and author, gave a TED talk in July in Oxford on data visualization, his specialty. Working with information guru Lee Byron he scraped more than 10,000 status updates of apparently privacy averse Facebook users for the words “break up” or “broken up.” And he found some distinct patterns in Dumpsville.
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