Silicon Valley Singles All About Queer, Decadent Robots in Online Dating Profiles

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Quick: what words are Silicon Valley singles more likely to use than other Americans when describing themselves on Internet dating sites?

Try these: queer, decadent, robot, raiding, wacky and telepathic, to name a few.

Musician and exerimental media dude R. Luke Dubois aggregated data from 21 online dating sites in order to create this awesome visualization of the 20,262 unique words found in the dating profiles of more than 19 million single Americans. He then combined that info with geographical data to create an atlas of how people describe themselves and the people they want to be with. Each word appears in the place it is used more frequently than anywhere else in the country.

The singles data was harvested from Match.com, LavaLife, PlentyOfFish, Chemistry.com, Ok Cupid, Nerve.com, eHarmony, SinglesNet, PerfectMatch.com, FriendFinder, Great Expectations,  AmericanSingles.com, Date.com, Christian Mingle, Gay.com, Blacksingles.com, Jdate, AsiaFriendFinder, Alt.com, and Collarme.com.

And in case you were wondering, this is not an April Fool's joke. The technorati just really love their robots, okay?

[Image via R. Luke Dubois]

Tags: data visualization, online dating, silicon valley, singles

Companies: Alt.com, AmericanSingles.com, AsiaFriendFinder, Blacksingles.com, Chemistry.com, Christian Mingle, Collarme.com, Date.com, eHarmony, FriendFinder, Gay.com, Great Expectations, jdate, LavaLife, Match.com, Nerve.com, Ok Cupid, PerfectMatch.com, Plentyoffish.com, SinglesNet

People: R. Luke Dubois

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 01 Apr, 2011

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Source: http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=d53fb45f6b21ed953275eb74102e1ed4
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