The Pudding examines who gets shipped, which means a pairing of characters in…
relationships
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Who gets shipped in fan fiction
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Analysis of text messages with an ex-boyfriend
Teresa Ibarra used Facebook Messenger to text with her now ex-boyfriend almost a…
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Ages of the People We Marry
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.
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Common Age Differences, Married Couples
How common are wide age gaps between spouses? These are the age differences through the lens of the 2022 five-year American Community Survey.
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More friendships between rich and poor might mean less poverty
Recently published in Nature, research by Chetty, R., Jackson, M.O., Kuchler, T. et…
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A long distance relationship between a temperature difference
Everyone’s story is a little different. Alyssa Fowers tracked her long-distance relationship in…
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Texting history after the first swipe
Speaking of relationship timelines, Chris Lewis used texting history with his girlfriend after…
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The Stages of Relationships, Distributed
Everyone’s relationship timeline is a little different. This animation plays out real-life paths to marriage.
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The Relationship Timeline Continues to Stretch
We know that people are marrying later in life, but that’s not the only shift. The whole relationship timeline is stretching.
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Shifts in How Couples Meet, Online Takes the Top
How do couples meet now and how has it changed over the years? Watch the rankings play out over six decades.
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How People Meet Their Partners
“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.
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Probability you will break up with your partner
Rosenfeld, et al. from Stanford University ran a survey in 2009 for a…
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Closeness in relationships over time, illustrated with a couple of lines
Cartoonist Olivia de Recat illustrated the closeness over time for various relationships. Charming.…
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Following your gut, following the data
The Wall Street Journal highlighted a disagreement between data and business at Netflix.…
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People relationships in data analysis
Roger Peng discusses the importance of managing the relationships between people — analyst,…
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Tracking her boyfriend on Strava
Elizabeth Barber was in a long-distance relationship, and Strava was a way for…
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Relationships: The First Time…
When Americans had sex, moved in with someone, and so on. Often not average. Far from normal.
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Who marries who, by profession
People with certain professions tend to marry others with a given profession. Adam…
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Six Degrees of Francis Bacon, a 17th century social network
These days it’s relatively easy to figure out connections between people via email,…
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Map of Craigslist Missed Connections
On Craigslist there’s a section in the personals for “missed connections” which lets…
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