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R. Luke DuBois mapped Southern California using words found in dating profiles. (bitforms gallery nyc)
Artist-programmer R. Luke DuBois has his own map of the U.S., and it’s not colored with red states and blue. DuBois doesn’t need the polls; he gathered his data from 19 million dating profiles. Politics, schmolitics – he wants to know what we really think about. Who’s shy, who’s bored, who’s sexy. And who wants to be spanked. Produced by Studio 360’s Eric Molinsky.
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I'll take any Brooklyn hipster that puts "Dylan" in their profile...
The map needs to filter out some words in south locations. For example, surprise, surprise, "gig" appears most frequently in Gig Harbor, WA and "sound" appears in a city on Puget Sound (Olympia, WA).
I love the sensation that no matter what color my state is, my neighbor's dreadful politics are hiding that he is just one lonely, trustworthy, sexy, spanker looking to become two.
A fascinating concept unfortunately rendered ineffective in the design of information presentation. One must understand the rules of color mixing to try and separate male and female data. Even then, it's a muddy interpretation.
A side-by-side display of gender data for each keyword would have been much readily understood and would have achieved the goal of all statistical data presentation; creating actionable information.
Edward Tufte's comments on this project would be an informative critique. And he would be a fabulous guest!
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This is amazing...I live in one of these towns, and the word fits perfectly!!!
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