Students concerned their relationships are on the rocks and could end soon can gain some insight from a study of Facebook statuses.
A new graphic circulating on the Internet charts the use of the phrases “breakup” and “broken up” in Facebook status updates to show what time of the year couples split.
David McCandless, a London-based writer and designer who focuses on data journalism and information design, along with colleague Lee Bryon, created the data visualization in 2008 by scraping 10,000 Facebook status updates for data.
McCandless exhibited the graphic during a July TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Conference on data visualization.
He described the graph to the audience, saying, “People clearing out for Spring Break, coming out of very bad weekends on Monday, being single over the summer. And then the lowest day of the year, of course: Christmas Day. Who would do that?”
The graphic shows spikes in breakups after Valentine’s Day and in the two weeks before Christmas.
There was also a significant spike on April Fool’s Day.
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