Submission + - Facebook analizes the impact of love on their business (theatlantic.com) 3
c0lo writes: Facebook might understand your romantic prospects better than you do.
In a blog post, the company’s team of data scientists announced with hard numbers that hints at budding relationships before the relationships start.
The two people enter a period of courtship, during which timeline posts increase. After the couple makes it official, their posts on each others’ walls decrease—presumably because the happy two are spending more time together (and less on FB?!)
A subsequent blog entry offerrs an insight on break-ups: it is the last of a series of 6 blogposts that ran last week on the "love" theme (if you are un US single, you may be interested in this one for cities with an extreme male/female singles ratio).
In a blog post, the company’s team of data scientists announced with hard numbers that hints at budding relationships before the relationships start.
The two people enter a period of courtship, during which timeline posts increase. After the couple makes it official, their posts on each others’ walls decrease—presumably because the happy two are spending more time together (and less on FB?!)
A subsequent blog entry offerrs an insight on break-ups: it is the last of a series of 6 blogposts that ran last week on the "love" theme (if you are un US single, you may be interested in this one for cities with an extreme male/female singles ratio).
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What I saw as significant:
* an example of what FB can do with the data it owns
* the fact that it hired professionals to do it as a permanent job
The above is rather close to the "analizing" meaning, at least in what pertains to their users base.