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We Know Everything: An Interview with OkTrends « The Bygone Bureau
Company blogs are often PR regurgitating machines on a WordPress install. But OkTrends , the official blog of dating site OkCupid , does more than blandly praise the service. Instead, OkCupid’s founders have compiled data from hundreds of millions of user interactions — from profile pictures to rape fantasies — to identify the habits and tendencies of those looking for love on the web. And though it leans heavily on math, it still offers plenty to enjoy for those of us who barely passed Intro to Statistics. Sam Yagan: From the very beginning when we started OkCupid, we knew that we were going to collect all kinds of interesting data on our users, and that comes in a bunch of interesting ways: profile data; various information that people are always more willing to give a dating site more than any other site; the match questions people answer — the average user answers 233 questions about their own preferences and consumption.