I Want You to Want Me (Visual Remix)

by David Evans on February 9, 2009 in Dating Research

breakdowns.jpgThis is an old link but as a fan of data visualization tools I wanted to share.

FlowingDating says:

Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar collaborated again in their featured piece at New York Museum of Modern Art’s Design of the Elastic Mind exhibit. Similar in flavor to their previous work, I Want You to Want Me explores the search for love and for self in the online dating world i.e. data collected from various online dating sites every few hours.

I Want You To Want Me chronicles the world’s long-term relationship with romance, across all ages, genders, and sexualities, gathering new data from a variety of online dating sites every few hours. The system searches these sites for certain phrases, which it then collects and stores in a database. These phrases, taken out of context, provide partial glimpses into people’s private lives. Simultaneously, the system forms an evolving zeitgeist of dating, tracking the most popular first dates, turn-ons, desires, self-descriptions and interests.

Read the artist statement. and check out the video.

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    mariana February 12, 2009 at 9:56 am

    I love this guy, I sometimes exchange comments with him

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