❤️ Forces of Attraction ❤️
This one goes out to the data-curious and the hopeless romantics. Our site visualizes a dataset of more than 8000 pairings in experimental speed-dating events by Columbia Business School professors Ray Fisman and Sheena Iyengar for their paper "Gender Differences in Mate Selection: Evidence From a Speed Dating Experiment". The dating takes place over multiple "waves", and participants get paired up with an array of partners from a wide variety of backgrounds. We hope you enjoy exploring this data!
Wave-by-Wave
Each node is a participant in the study, arranged according to
. A line between two nodes indicates that those participants
are a match in the current wave!
You can drag the nodes to see which other participants attract each other in the study,
and select a single node to highlight the information for its group in the summary
views.
Group Legend:
Summary
Here we see statistics over all of the waves, divided by group. You can use the same drop-down below the visualization on the left to select the grouping type. Click away! You may find a secret hidden in one of the groups.
Click on the labels above to see detailed probabilites for each group below.
